Hi! It's me!
Our situation:
We were living in Salisbury in a rented house. My husband works. I do not (and do not plan to). Because my husband was my visa sponsor, he had to make £18,600pa for me to be eligible. So, we started looking at houses. In Wales.
And, inevitably, we found one that ticked very nearly all the boxes (it didn't have "a view", which was on my husband's "want" list, but it did satisfy all of our deal-breakers), we offered, it was accepted, and five months later, we finally completed. And that's when the fun began!
So, we left our rental near Salisbury and I moved to our new house in rural southwest Wales in November 2016. My husband had begun looking for work at our new location way back in May that year, when we made the offer on our house, but he hadn't found anything that paid enough to meet the visa threshold yet (if I worked, my income would have counted, so he could have taken a lesser job, but every time I pointed this out to my husband, he would say "Yes, but then you would have to
work." And, neither one of us particularly wanted this, least of all, me!). So the first weekend, we moved me in and got me all situated, then he packed some clothes, and a toiletries bag, and headed off to work Monday morning. He came home Friday evening. In the evenings, we kept in touch via text, email, and calls, and we played online games together. And we looked through job listings and sent each other prospects to consider.
Nearly a year later, in October, 2017, he finally had an interview for a job that exceeded the income requirement. He was selected. He
still didn't start until March 25, 2018. So from November 2016 until March 2018, my husband was gone during the week and home at the weekend. And I didn't have a car. And if the electricity went out, I didn't have heat, internet, or phone (I used mobile-to-wifi for phone service because we live in a mobile dead spot).
My ILR application came due just after he started at his new job. Because of the recently-started new job, we qualified under Category B, using a year of income, and the continued salary going forward. His address was our new house, and he received all of his post* here for relationship evidence. Plus, we had evidence of our chat/emails/calls if they were confused about his employer's address being so far from our home address, and wanted to know that we were maintaining contact. They only wanted the 6 items of correspondence, because he officially lived here with me.... he was just away for work during the week.
* He was worried about his employer thinking it odd that he lived 3-1/2 hours away from his work, so he kept our old address with them and had a redirect in place for two years. So all of his payslips came to us with redirect stickers on them... and then I submitted those to UKVI for my visa.
But it all worked out in the end. They didn't seem concerned.
