Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
one of the reasons that its 5yrs in the UK now until your spouse can get ILR, also stops them claiming certain benefits for 5yrs,

its a good and bad thing, weeds out some abusers but maybe unfair on some who have made the UK their home for 4 or near 5yrs and are at the mercy of their spouse until they get ILR.
This is not the case Joe

For example.....A filipina here on a spouse visa and she has child/children....The husband turns out to be an abuser. The filipina and children can then go to a womens refuge/shelter for the abused....best look online, they are all interlinked Nationwide.

If she's genuine, her case worker will get her, her British Citizenship (government funded) and social housing along with sorting out her benefits.

I'm not sure whether the pinay has to have ILR first before being allowed into a shelter..which begs the question, if she hasn't, where does she go to escape the abuser?....I'll hazard a guess, that she'll still get into the shelter and still get her Government funded ILR.