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    Joint Accounts!

    Hi,

    I'm unemployed but receive benefits like DLA so I'm exempt from the new rules and I was wondering if me and my future spouse could have a joint account as she works as a nurse and earns a lot of money.
    What do you all think?


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    Also another thing,
    Would it help if she had an offer of a job in the UK on the spouse route?

    Thanks all


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick30 View Post
    Hi,

    I'm unemployed but receive benefits like DLA so I'm exempt from the new rules and I was wondering if me and my future spouse could have a joint account as she works as a nurse and earns a lot of money.
    What do you all think?




    Yes. My wife and I have one. We set it up just after she arrived here in the UK. It took a few weeks to get set up.

    Any correspondence we get from the bank is in joint names so we stick it in a folder with our ILR evidence too.


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    We have a joint account too. With the wife being paid on different dates each month, it was just easier having all our money going in and out of the same account. The beer definitely tastes nicer when it's bought on the wife's payday!

    Lastlid, when you requested the joint bank account, was it a brand new account as a few weeks seems like quite a while? When my missus arrived, the bank told us the easiest solution to my wife having her own account given she was new to the country was to convert my account into a joint one and go from there. Only took a day or so.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveUK View Post
    We have a joint account too. With the wife being paid on different dates each month, it was just easier having all our money going in and out of the same account. The beer definitely tastes nicer when it's bought on the wife's payday!

    Lastlid, when you requested the joint bank account, was it a brand new account as a few weeks seems like quite a while? When my missus arrived, the bank told us the easiest solution to my wife having her own account given she was new to the country was to convert my account into a joint one and go from there. Only took a day or so.
    Yes. We converted an account in my name to one in joint names. The delay was mainly down to gathering together the paperwork that they required. Proof of address and that.


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    Did you work Dave when you applied for spouse visa?


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    Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
    Yes. We converted an account in my name to one in joint names. The delay was mainly down to gathering together the paperwork that they required. Proof of address and that.
    Ah right. Thought that was a bit long for the bank to take on its own

    Love how the banking system works, at least at HSBC anyway! They told me my wife would need a Passport account which had a monthly fee if she opened an account on her own due to her previous address being abroad and she was new to the island. But apparently, by converting my account to a joint one, the system apparently didn't care she was new to the country. Guess it does away with a bunch of checks if the account already exists! Not going to complain


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick30 View Post
    Did you work Dave when you applied for spouse visa?
    Yeah, I was working fella.


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    That's good

    How do I go about applying for spouse in the future as I put on the above?


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    Unfortunately as I've been away from the forum for quite a while and only returned recently, the new changes have passed me by somewhat. I'm sure one of the guys/ladies who've been here during the changes will be able to point you in the right direction mate. In the mean time, try doing a search on the forum and see what pops up
    Last edited by DaveUK; 12th September 2012 at 08:11. Reason: Typo


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    Maybe I could try Arthur


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick30 View Post
    Also another thing,
    Would it help if she had an offer of a job in the UK on the spouse route?

    Thanks all

    As it stands right now, no consideration will be given to either the current employment earnings or the future employment prospective earnings of the applicant.
    It's completely down to the sponsor.

    Do some searching on the forum Nick, there's a huge amount of information available.


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    Thanks mate,

    Sorry if I sent you a message twice because it didn't show as sent.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveUK View Post
    Ah right. Thought that was a bit long for the bank to take on its own

    Love how the banking system works, at least at HSBC anyway! They told me my wife would need a Passport account which had a monthly fee if she opened an account on her own due to her previous address being abroad and she was new to the island. But apparently, by converting my account to a joint one, the system apparently didn't care she was new to the country. Guess it does away with a bunch of checks if the account already exists! Not going to complain
    I see. In our case they also took a photocopy of my wife's passport and visa. Even though it was, like yours, a simple add on to an existing account. But it was at least do-able and simpler than opening an account in her name only.


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    Can someone find me one with a good job and who earns a lot of money ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    Can someone find me one with a good job and who earns a lot of money ?
    Theresa May


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick30 View Post
    Hi,

    I'm unemployed but receive benefits like DLA so I'm exempt from the new rules and I was wondering if me and my future spouse could have a joint account as she works as a nurse and earns a lot of money.
    What do you all think?
    Perhaps she'll be the one who doesn't want a joint account !
    No man is an island, but Barry is


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Theresa May


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Theresa May
    As long as there was no sex.


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    As long as there was no sex.
    she likes lots of sex, she seems to us men over time after time after time


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    As long as there was no sex.
    ... well ... suppose you COULD always put a bag over her head!


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    Yuk....thank goodness I've had my tea.


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    Folks ... I'm sure Nick very much appreciates your respective responses to the question he's raised. However, it appears to me that what, in fact, he'd sought to clarify was - whether or not *opening a joint account with his fiancee would be helpful for Settlement Visa purposes.

    ... clearly, *doing so is likely to have little bearing on the outcome ... since the onus rests solely with the sponsor to prove he/she has adequate funds to support an applicant, as Terpe has explained - and I have duly reiterated in my reply to a personal message sent to me by Nick.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick30 View Post
    Maybe I could try Arthur
    Nick ... I wish my response to your personal message could've been more reassuring.


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    I see. It looked like there was 2 elements to his posting.

    1] That he was confident of them acquirng a visa on the grounds that he was exempted from the minimum income requirement.

    2] Was wondering about the possibility of them having a joint account.



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