My heads spinning

no problem! i know what it is like to have your loved one so far away and be wondering if you will ever be able to live in the same country. good luck!

Hi,
I'm the other half that belongs to the one whose head is spinning!

Ok thought I would just explain what benefits I am on.
I claim family tax credit and working tax credit as I am a single mum working full time with 2 kids in tow. I know that the benefit will decrease once Brian and I are married and that doesn't bother me as I'm sure he will get a job pretty quick once we are married.

What does bother me is the fact that I'm not employed permanently yet, I should get permanent employment but it takes time and the call centre I work at is quite large they only take on so many a month, it seems most people have to wait 6-8 months so still have 4 months to wait maybe, and we want to get our visa for October.
Nickee

Not so sure about that. You might of course lose your working tax credit if he gets a job, but I think you might be able to continue to claim when you are married until he finds work, because your income will be the same.

Why 'at least 6 months' of being unemployed if you go the fiancé visa route? You can switch to the spousal visa and therefore be able to work as soon as you get married. You do not have to wait until the 6 months are nearly up to do that. We got married 2 weeks after DH arrived on a fiancé visa and he was working a month later.

I do agree that it is cheaper to go the spousal route, but everyone should get married in the country they want to marry in, if possible.

I didn't say "at least" 6 months....I said "up to" 6 months.  If they don't get married until 6 months after he enters the UK, then he'll be unemployed for the duration.  It seems that he wants to work ASAP (or maybe I'm reading too much into that), so I figured the spousal visa was the best option as he can work right away without having to "switch" from fiance to spousal.

Wow was just looking through some of my old posts.  I came from that original post to having visa in hand and a ticket for Oct 4.  Now I'm helping organize a thanksgiving get together.  I'm glad Nickee found this site .