Hi,
I’m wondering if people can help us, give us some pointers. Basically, my girlfriend (a US citizen) and I (UK citizen) are looking to get married in just over a year’s time and live in the UK, but we have some questions regarding the process. Basically, we met online at a message-board about 6 years ago, we’ve been “together” for about three years now, talking on the phone, online via email/messenger and in that time we’ve met up twice, for about two weeks at a time and we’re meeting up again soon for about three weeks and we plan to meet as regularly as possible for the next year or so. Our circumstances are the following:
My girlfriend is 20, I am 21. I won’t be in fulltime employment for about 2 years because I’m training to be an airline pilot, so as the sponsor (UK citizen) I won’t be able to provide an income for about two years from now. We don’t have a place of our own, but my girlfriend’s grandparents have offered us their flat in the UK rent-free to stay in until we get settled (depending on where in the UK my airline domicile will be). My girlfriend will have about $40,000 worth of savings, to which I can add about £12,000 of savings for us to live on until I get a fulltime salary.
Does anyone believe we’ll have any problems getting approved? And how should we go about starting the process and any idea how long it may take once the application is submitted? Are there any things you believe we should get (as evidence of our relationship besides photographs/passport stamps etc) or any other pieces of information for us?
Thank you all for any help,
Danny
