Settlement Visa to override my Marriage Visa once Married

Good Evening from Retford, UK
I am on a visa which is good till December 22, 2015 but will be going to Toronto, Sept after the Marriage.
1) When my spouse applies for the settlement Visa, would this settlement visa overide/can it override my Marriage visa, or do i need to let this Visa Expire first (Marriage Visa).
Thanks in Advance

You do not need to wait for the marriage visitor visa to expire before applying for a spouse visa.

Ok Good News Thanks Aquila

As Aquila said, you can apply for  the spousal visa at any time after you are married and are back in Canada, regardless of the validity of any other visa you have.

You can only hold one valid UK visa at a time, so when your Spousal Visa is issued, it will automatically cancel any time left on the Marriage Visitor Visa.

Hello Ksand24, the financial part of it, when my spouse has all the information, pertaining to her financial side of things,  do i need to send it off from Canada or can we leave it here and she can drive down to Sheffield (think that where it goes) and hand it over to them. this is once i am in Canada and completely, and thoroughly gone over all the information.

Also would it be wise to get an immigration lawyer. Yes/No

She can't hand deliver anything.

There is no need for a lawyer unless you have a real, valid reason for believing that your visa could be refused.

For example:

- you have serious criminal convictions
- you have had previous refused visas or refused entries to the UK
- you have been an illegal overstayer in the UK
- you have worked illegally in the UK in the past

If you didn't need a lawyer for the marriage visitor visa and it was issued without problems then there is no reason to think you will need a lawyer for a spousal visa application.

It's a pretty straightforward, tick-box visa and all the information you need you can get for free from the UKVI website and from the forum. As long as you meet the requirements and send the required documents, the visa should be issued.


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Sounds Terrific .. ty no  such any information form the criminality side..

After going through the documents, I will be getting married August 24, coming back home to Canada, in the mean time we are going through some documents and filling out what we can Settlement (VAf4A and the appendix 2 form)

My Fiance /wife has her own business, and is paying herself a weekly wage fo £380 the minimum is 18,600 for me to get sponsored to be with her, being a single mother, I really dont know if she will be able to doit, Can we combine our finances, and if so how would this work out.
Also am i filling out the right forms (Settlement /Spousel Documents).



 

After going through the documents, I will be getting married August 24, coming back home to Canada, in the mean time we are going through some documents and filling out what we can Settlement (VAf4A and the appendix 2 form)

My Fiance /wife has her own business, and is paying herself a weekly wage fo £380 the minimum is 18,600 for me to get sponsored to be with her, being a single mother, I really dont know if she will be able to doit, Can we combine our finances, and if so how would this work out.
Also am i filling out the right forms (Settlement /Spousel Documents).

The qualifications for self employed are much more complex and require a lot more proof than applying under category A or B. That sounds like enough, but it depends what her income is after business deductions.  I am sure someone will pop in and give you a link but under the financial info on the UKVI website it goes into the full list of required documentation for people who are self employed.  She will have to show she's registered as self employed, has paid national insurance regularly, has the wages going into the bank and must provide the last full financial year's books and statements (If using category F) or the last two years (If using category G). I have oversimplified it, but it's pretty daunting but absolutely possible if she makes enough.
With self employed income you can not combine cash savings but you can combine the sponsor's wages earned. Your income can not be added to hers.

After going through the documents, I will be getting married August 24, coming back home to Canada, in the mean time we are going through some documents and filling out what we can Settlement (VAf4A and the appendix 2 form)

You're probably already aware, but just a reminder that the VAF4a is only for reference as you will be filling out the online application form when you actually apply (the paper VAF4a is not accepted anywhere except North Korea).

My Fiance /wife has her own business, and is paying herself a weekly wage fo £380 the minimum is 18,600 for me to get sponsored to be with her, being a single mother, I really dont know if she will be able to doit, Can we combine our finances, and if so how would this work out.
Also am i filling out the right forms (Settlement /Spousel Documents).

Yes, you will select Settlement -> Husband when you fill in the online form.

No, you cannot combine your finances, she has to meet the requirement entirely on her own (the only way you can use your income is if you already have a visa that allows you to work in the UK - so you can use it for the next visa in 2.5 years but not for the spousal visa).

If her earnings after expenses are a guaranteed £380 per week, then that should come to £19,760 per year, which means she should hopefully meet the requirement and be able to sponsor your visa.

However, self-employment income is tricky when it comes to getting the visa because there are A LOT of documents she must supply - the documents are listed in Annex FM 1.7 and Appendix FM-SE and she must sent every single document in that list or the visa will be refused - and she needs to make sure she ONLY uses income from the last 1 or 2 full financial years and that she has filed all her necessary tax documents for the 2014/2015 financial year before you apply.

She will need to show an income of either:

- £18,600 (after expenses but before tax) earned in the last financial year -  between April 6th 2014 and April 5th 2015

or

- an average of £18,600 (after expenses but before tax) over the previous 2 financial years, so from April 6th 2013 to April 5th 2015.

They will not count any part-financial-years - so none of the income she has earned since April 6th 2015 will count if you are applying between now and April 2016.

Thanks to the Forum for all help and advice...

Hi Ksand24, yes right now we are doing a rough copy which we printed out, VAF4A, and the appendix 2 so we know where we stand in terms of completng it, then going online and adding it to the application. ( thats when we have all the documents needed)

She started paying herself, was advised to pay herself as of last year, due to the fact everything ran through the business she never paid her self, (was advised by a lawyer)
She also has this shop (small) for about 3 yrs, and everything (money) was thrown into this to make it work.

I am just here on a marriage Visa till Dec 22, 2015, but going back home around September,

so having all this information Ksand24, we can go about it our selves, but i am thinking  this is a bit complicated for us, we can do it, but i thik its a bit dunting to her, (more on the patience side ) and documents needed.

Documents are a bit complicated  from the ukvi, reading the settlement docs and appedix ...really dont know where to start.