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UK Spouse Visa | UK Partner Visa | UK Marriage Visa application requirements as of April 2024

To be eligible for a UK Spouse Visa, you must meet a number of requirements set out by the Home Office. This includes financial requirements, as well as providing evidence that your relationship with your partner is genuine and subsisting. Here we go through the main requirements for a spouse visa application.

Age requirements for UK Spouse visa

• You and your partner must be over the age of 18 and intend to live together in the UK.

Genuine Relationship Requirement

• You must be legally married or in a civil partnership recognized by the UK, or you must have been in a relationship similar to marriage or a civil partnership for at least 2 years.
• If applying as a fiancé, fiancée, or proposed civil partner, you must intend to marry or enter into a civil partnership within 6 months of arriving in the UK.

Accommodation Requirement

• You must have adequate accommodation available in the UK, which will be exclusively occupied by you and your partner. Your arrival must not lead to overcrowding in the property.

English Language Requirement

You will meet the English language requirement if any one of the following applies:

• You have passed an approved English language test at level A1 or above. If you wish to extend your stay in the UK at a later date, you will need to pass at least a CEFR level A2 test to show continuing improvement in line with the time you have been in the country.
• You have a degree/academic qualification that was taught in English and you have obtained comparability statements from Ecctis; for a qualification from the UK, you only need to provide your degree certificate.
• You are a national of a majority English-speaking country.

You will be exempt from meeting the English language requirement if you are over 65 or have a physical or mental condition that prevents you from meeting the requirement.

Financial Requirement

You and your partner in the UK must have an annual income of at least £29,000 from April 2024. The financial requirement can be met in the following ways:

• Annual income of £29,000 per annum
• Cash savings of £88,500
• A combination of the above

The UK Spouse Visa financial requirement can be satisfied in a variety of ways, including by relying on:

• Earnings from employment
• Earnings from self-employment or as a director of a limited company
• Cash savings above £16,000
• Pension(s)
• Non-employment income, e.g., income from property rental or dividends from shares

You will be exempt from meeting the financial requirement if your partner in the UK is receiving one of the following benefits:

• Disability Living Allowance
• Severe Disablement Allowance
• Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit
• Attendance Allowance
• Carer’s Allowance
• Personal Independence Payment
• Armed Forces Independence Payment or Guaranteed Income Payment under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
• Constant Attendance Allowance, Mobility Supplement, or War Disablement Pension under the War Pensions Scheme

If the exemption applies to you, you will still be required to show that you and your partner will be able to adequately maintain and accommodate yourselves without recourse to public funds. Your dedicated lawyer at Mulgrave Law, will assess if you can meet the criteria of adequate maintenance, this depends on the benefits/income received by each family unit and must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

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