Hi all,
This fourm has been quite helpful over the years so I thought I'd try and get some advice, although I don't think there are any clear answers.
My partner entered on a fiancee visa in sep 2017. Got married and then converted this to FLM(M) in Jan 2018. Current visa expires Aug 2020.
We easily qualify for the second extension at the moment, we are both working. Comined earnings 43k, I'm quite a bit over the threashold myself, my partner is just under.
However there is obviously a bit of uncertainty at the moment. I'm working from home, partner is in a bank so still going to work. Neither of us is in an essential area such as healthcare. My boss had mentioned three day weeks ect if demand really goes down, but depends on what happens. Hypothetically that would put me under the earnings requierment if that happend.
Therefore I was thinking about different options:
1. I know suposedly the goverment will pay 80% of your salary if you are kept on. For me that would be still over £18600, however would that be acceptable to meet the earnings requiement? I doubt the home office as revised the guidence yet to spacifically address that. I know in another thread it was thought it wasn't public funds, but thats a slightly diffent issue to if you can use it for the earnings requiement? Maybe it isn't and I'm just over thinking it.
2. We qualify now so put the application in now, even though the timing will mean 3 applications to ILR instead of 2.
3. I don't know the rules as well but I think since we've already been married 2 years, I'd qualify for a 10 year green card in the US. I'm not completely against that, and sometimes I wonder if fate or whatever is trying to tell us to just go there lol.
Regards
