Stark choice under new immigration rules: exile or family breakup

Wow.
That is a lot of money.

A lot.

This is horrid for those not yet through the process!

My hubby and I would NOT have been approved under the new rules. Because he did not have a proper accountant - he did it all himself, and he is self employed, and they would not accept his (plentiful) income for my sponsorship because he was not registered for the past year with a proper accountant! He showed the income as the business income and not his personal income... or something like that.. So, we had to get 3rd party support!

So, we had his dad be our sponsor.

Now people cannot do that!

I'm very upset for people who are now applying.

So, we had to get 3rd party support!

So, we had his dad be our sponsor.

Now people cannot do that!

I'm very upset for people who are now applying.

To be fair though, third party support only been allowed again for the last 18 months.

If you applied before November 2010 (I think it was November that it came back in), you couldn't use third party financial support at all - if the sponsor and applicant couldn't meet the requirements between them, they couldn't apply for the visa.

Wow, I did not know that.

We got very, very lucky.

I hope everyone applying has such luck... Perhaps in a different way.
But, i wish them luck and success.

Still waiting for paperwork from UK to apply for my husbands settlement visa, we ate currently in USA. Is 9th July for the final processing or are applications submitted online until 9th July under the old rules, regardless of final processing date?

Also, under the new rules if the sponsor has an offer of a doctorate training with 14,400 pounds tax free, do they take the 'tax free' part into consideration? Are there any other routes if the sponsor will be a full time student to bring her US husband over?

Thanks so much

A couple of people in the Advocacy section got replies about grandfathering sometime around January. Also, someone I know from another site got a similar response - that it's likely everyone already here will be grandfathered in - from UKBA around the end of April.

I made a special point of tearing myself away from a line-by-line reading of the Statement of Intent to post that I am SO GLAD YOU WERE RIGHT!!! (yes, I'm shouting. Happy shouting, I'm really glad you were right!)

I really was afraid to trust anything a pol said, hey, I'm an American, lol, so it's to be expected.