Hi all..I have been looking online for answers to my questions about spouse visa. Before I signed up for membership here, i read lots of threads here and its great to find this site...such a very informative and useful place to read about my queries.
I have a 5 year old girl and am married to a wonderful British man. We have been living here in the Philippines since 2006 thinking life would be better because cost of living here is a lot cheaper than in UK. After years of staying here, we realized its not as easy as we thought it would be for us to live here especially my husband couldn't really get a job here. He had to work abroad and had to be away from me and our daughter most of the time.
So now, me and my husband is fed up of being away from each other because of his work, considering we have a growing child. We now both have decided to go back to England. So here comes in my questions.
1. Will I have a chance to be given a spouse visa? considering that I have over stayed in England for over 2 years. This is because I thought I had a legal UK work permit. I went to England on a tourist visa and when I get there I met someone I thought can help me work in UK. I had to pay this person and she managed to get me everything I needed so I can get a job in England on a proper visa. So I did get a job and there I met my boyfriend now my husband. I got pregnant and we wanted to get married then in UK but I learned my visa was fake so I had a voluntary exit. Came back to the Philippines with my man and my daughter and lived here since then.
2. How much money do we need to have in the bank to convince the ECO that we don't plan on using public funds to support ourselves when the family goes back to England? I understand they don't say a specific amount but at the moment we don't have that much money in the bank..We have like 2000 UK pounds in my husband's UK bank account and about 3000 US dollars in our pocket. Would that suffice? Me and my husband do intend to work when we get there.
3. My mother-in-law offered her place for us to stay for as long as we want once we get to England. Is that a valid or suitable accommodation for my family that the ECO would be happy to consider? Me and my husband are thinking, we can't really pay rent yet in UK while we are still here in the Philippines because that would be a waste of money considering I am not 100% sure I will be given a visa.
Any information would be great. At the moment, my husband is in the process of healing because his bicep tendon snapped while he was working abroad. He's got no job at the moment too..so we're a little tight really and I'm working on a minimum wage here in manila. That's why we need to know if I am qualified to apply for a visa otherwise, we don't really want his hard earned money to go to waste. And we want to go back to England mainly for our growing daughter and for the family to be always together. It really is not nice to be away from your loved ones. Advance thank you to any advice you can give
