Question regarding filling out employment history in Appendix 2

Hi everyone, I was wondering if somebody can help me out with filling out an aspect of Appendix 2 please? I am a UK citizen currently residing in the UK and am in the process of preparing a spousal visa application with my soon-to-be wife (who is a US citizen).

My situation is as follows: after working in the US since June 2014, I returned to the UK in October of 2017 to take up a job here (my annual pay for this job meets the financial requirements of at least £18,600). However, as I started this job in October, and we are planning on submitting our application by mid-March at the latest, I will not have been in my current job for at least 6 months by the time we apply. Therefore, if I have understood correctly, we will have to apply as Category B to meet the financial requirements.

I am assuming this means we will have to submit supporting evidence (including pay stubs and bank statements) of my US-based job income dating back to 12 months prior to our application (i.e. from March 2017 to September 2017, which is when I left this job to return to the UK). My annual income from this job also exceeds the financial requirements.

However, our confusion arises in terms of how to actually fill this information out in Appendix 2. Part 3A (page 6) asks for details regarding my employment in the UK (which goes back to October 2017). I assumed that I would be able to fill in details regarding my US employment in Part 3B (page 7) however there is a blue box at the beginning of this section that states "Only complete this section if your sponsor is not permanently resident in the UK and will be returning to the UK to work". Because I am currently in the UK and have already been in my UK-based job for a few months, I am not sure if this section applies to me or not? However, I cannot see any other sections in the form that allow me to specify details regarding my US job and how it meets the requirements.

I apologise for the lengthiness of this message, and I hope this makes sense. I would be very grateful for any advice.

Thanks so much!

Welcome to the forum .

Since you have already returned to the UK and have started working, you complete Part 3A only. Part 3B would only apply if you were still in the US... and so you do not need to enter your US employment details anywhere on the form. All you need to do is confirm your total earnings (from any and all jobs) since March 2017.

So, you complete it as follows:
Part 3
3.1 - No
3.2 - tick first box (£18,600)
3.3 - tick first box (Part 3A), tick Category B
Go to Part 3A
3.4 - Yes
3.5-3.10 - UK employment details
3.11 - annual salary in the UK
3.12 - No
3.13 - No (since your old job was not in the UK)
Go to 3.20
3.20 - total pre-tax earnings in the last 12 months (add together UK and US earnings (using Oanda exchange rate on the date you submit the application) since March 2017)
3.21 - Yes
3.22 - Yes
End of financial requirement section - leave the rest of Part 3 blank.



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Hi there,

Thank you so much for your detailed reply!

That all makes sense to me. The only thing I was wondering was: under question 3.2 it states "If your sponsor has had more than one previous/other job, you must provide full details for each job held at Part 5." Am I correct in interpreting that I need to provide details regarding my US job in Part 5 and also submit supporting evidence from this job (e.g. payslips, bank statements from the US)? I'm assuming that UK Visas and Immigration will want to know some details about the US job so that I fulfil all the criteria set out in Category B?

Thanks again for your help.

The only thing I was wondering was: under question 3.2 it states "If your sponsor has had more than one previous/other job, you must provide full details for each job held at Part 5." Am I correct in interpreting that I need to provide details regarding my US job in Part 5 and also submit supporting evidence from this job (e.g. payslips, bank statements from the US)? I'm assuming that UK Visas and Immigration will want to know some details about the US job so that I fulfil all the criteria set out in Category B?

All they need to know about your previous job is that you have earned at least £18,600 in total over the last 12 months. If you want to include your US employment details in Part 5 then go ahead, but it's not required for meeting the financial requirements.

You could have held 10 jobs in the last 12 months and it wouldn't matter as long as you provided all the payslips and bank statements to show you earned the minimum requirement.  Or you could have been unemployed in the US and then earned all of the £18,600 in the UK since October 2017... and again it wouldn't matter as long as you earned £18,600 in total and provide all 12 months of bank statements, and all the payslips you have from that period.

So, for Category B, you provide:
- a letter from your current UK employer, dated no more than 28 days before your online application date, stating ALL of the following:
i) current job title and salary
ii) length of employment
iii) length of time earning current salary
iv) type of employment

- original UK job contract (and P60 if you have one, but you won't yet as you've only been in the UK since October)

- 12 months of original payslips, both from the UK job and the US job showing total pre-tax earnings of at least £18,600, the latest dated no more than 28 days before your online application date

- 12 months of original US and UK bank statements showing the deposit of every single payslip, the latest dated no more than 28 days before your online application date

Thanks for clarifying and explaining everything so clearly.