Quote Originally Posted by dontgiveuponme View Post
Hello Everyone,

I needed some advice bout our visa problem..Me and my fiancee tried a fiancee visa last year October. Then we received the result saying its on hold because he didnt meet the financial requirement of 18,600 pounds income a year. We are together for 3 years now and both 25 years old. We are having problem with our relationship because of the visa problem. Seems like he is giving up and hopeless and it really hurts me coz we've come too far already to give up.. Any advice what we can do and how long do we need to wait and any of people here have the same problem but they get their visa at the end?

Any advice will be much appreciated
Hi there, welcome aboard Filipino UK

UK Family Immigration Rules require a minimum income of £18,600 to be met by applications from those applying to settle in the UK with their British or settled partner.

I'm sure you know, that the reason your application was not refused but was instead put 'on hold' is due to a current legal challenge against the Home Office on the question of this income threshold level.
The Home Office lodged an appeal against the 5 July 2013 High Court judgment against them and the High Court decision is still under consideration.

The latest data I have (Dec 2013) states that settlement route visa applications made outside of UK and currently on-hold stands at 2,628 cases with FLR cases standing at 386 cases.

To be frank I personally do not see any final determination from the legal process any time soon.
Whatever the court judgment will be it's seems certain that the losing side will then appeal to the Supreme Court. In this case there will be yet another on-hold waiting period of a minimum of 6 months for the Supreme court process to get going and even make a start let alone formulate a final determination

I wouldn't want to bet this case will get decided until after the General Election 2015

If your Fiance can meet the Financial Requirement my advice would be to withdraw your current application, forgo any refund of fees and make a new application.
Application on-hold are those where any refusal would be solely because the Financial Requirement rules of minimum income were not met.....means the rest of your application was fully compliant at that time.

Here's what UKVI state:-

If your application is currently on hold and you want to withdraw it, you may do so. UKVI will not refund your application fee.

If you applied outside the UK and, while your application remains on hold, you want to request the return of your passport to travel, you can do so by contacting your visa application centre.