My soon to be husband will be a student....any help/advice?

so the love of my life and I want to get married this summer. I will just be turning 22 and he will be 21. The upcoming fall (September 2010) will be the beginning of his last year of university. He gets student loans/grants. I know you wont get a spousal visa if your husband is on public funds. Do student loans and grants count as public funds? Any help is much appreciated.

I know you wont get a spousal visa if your husband is on public funds. Do student loans and grants count as public funds? Any help is much appreciated.

Who told you that?  Your sponsor can be on public funds with a spouse visa.  There are plenty of stories on this forum of people being approved for spouse visas while their sponsor is receiving public funds.  YOU, however, will not have access to public funds.

but i thought he had to be able to prove he can support me without access to public funds?

You thought wrong.

6A. For the purpose of these Rules, a person (P) is not to be regarded as having (or potentially having) recourse to public funds merely because P is (or will be) reliant in whole or in part on public funds provided to P's sponsor unless, as a result of P's presence in the United Kingdom, the sponsor is (or would be) entitled to increased or additional public funds (save where such entitlement to increased or additional public funds is by virtue of P and the sponsor's joint entitlement to benefits under the regulations referred to in paragraph 6B).

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/policyandlaw/immigrationlaw/immigrationrules/introduction/

You thought wrong.

Steady on.

Ktodd06, your husband cannot claim any extra benefits to support you, that's all.  But it's an irrelevant point, really, since student loans aren't benefits. 

You thought wrong.

I know you're not feeling well, but...

Get well soon.

student loans/grants aren't considered public funds as has been said. For a spousal visa, you basically have to prove that you, the non-EEA national, won't have to access  public funds when you're living here, regardless of whether your spouse is employed, on benefits, or a full time student.  As long as you meet the requirements that everyone else has to meet, you're fine- I'd suggest you do a budget though to make sure.

My husband was a full time undergraduate student when we got engaged and we found it really difficult to meet the financial hurdles of the spouse visa while he was still at uni, mostly because neither of us had any savings at all and he didn't have a part time job while studying either (so his entire income was his meagre student loan and that was all the financial resource we could prove.)  If we had had savings or he was working and studying, it might well have been a different story. (In the end, we applied for my visa once he finished and started working.)