Thread: Uk visa for Thai wife

You need 6 months salary slips giving total earnings over 9,300 GBP Gross (the exchange rate used is at the time they access it by the way, not when you were paid it) in that period. You need a work contract for a perm job earning more than 18,600 gross per year signed and sealed and a real company who when contacted will agree this is true - starting within 3 month of your scheduled return.

45k baht is not enough per month for spouse visa requirements. Would need to be 70,000 THB for 6 months.

You can indeed fly your wife over, although the chances of you getting her a visa (reason to return) will be slim as you will be working and living in the UK. The spouse visa takes 2-12 weeks, but usually more like 3-5 months from Thailand unless the financials are slam dunk. She needs to take English test, and also TB test as well.

Have you any savings? 63k GBP is all you need in the bank for 6 months.

Savings can be less than that, and there is a formula you can use to have the saving counted as salary. So you could say 45k baht + 30kgbp in savings and that meets the criteria.

(Amount of savings – 16,000) ÷ 2.5 = X


X – 18,600 = amount if income needed to cover the remainder


Example: £25,000 cash savings


(25000 – 16000) ÷ 2.5 = £3,600


£18,600 – £3,600 = £15,000

savvy?

Income can come from rental properties. It's income after all, and I suspect can be used as income for the next part as well.

Do you actually have a job with salary? Fee free to PM

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Cheers, will pm ya.

Have 45k thai income and job starts at 30k stirling (proper company)

You could bring her over on a 6 months tourist visa while you accumutate the criteria.
Then fly back for a holiday and bang the settlement application in.
She really needs to get stuck into that English test as a lot of Thais struggle with that.

Good info pseudo. And we bitch n moan about getting a long stay visa in Thailand.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

You could bring her over on a 6 months tourist visa while you accumutate the criteria.
Then fly back for a holiday and bang the settlement application in.
She really needs to get stuck into that English test as a lot of Thais struggle with that.

Perhaps because the main person they are picking the language up from is accumutating the criteria?

Originally Posted by Norton

Good info pseudo. And we bitch n moan about getting a long stay visa in Thailand.

Tell you what- after all the shit we are going through for various reasons I will never ever complain about UK visas ever again. It's fucking ludicrous some of the things they want now including minimum time spent in country in the first tranche of visa.... we've had to stop all our travelling now as otherwise we're fucked. Well... no, because I'm bored with the UK so gonna piss of back to Asia I reckon.

Shag - the UK is shit. DON'T DO IT. You will regret it.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Shag - the UK is shit. DON'T DO IT. You will regret it.

Seconded. Sooner I can finish here the better.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

You could bring her over on a 6 months tourist visa while you accumutate the criteria.

If you can do it straight up it is a SHIT load easier. The big risk is that not getting the visit visa would seriously impede process of Spouse visa.

45k thai income is not enough (is that only from the rentals?) - you would need to show 31k in the bank for 6 months OR a family member can stuff it in your bank account but for gawds sake you need them to write a letter saying it is a gift that does not need repaying.

It's been great for the kids. Can't say I'm a huge fan of this perpetual murk, but I'll suffer it to get the nippers off to a good start.

It's a long drawn out, protracted and painful process, Alberto, but ultimately worth it.

Originally Posted by Norton

Good info pseudo. And we bitch n moan about getting a long stay visa in Thailand.

Indeed...

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

You could bring her over on a 6 months tourist visa while you accumutate the criteria.
Then fly back for a holiday and bang the settlement application in.

That's what I'd like to do mate. From your own experience, is that possible?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Shag - the UK is shit. DON'T DO IT. You will regret it.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Seconded. Sooner I can finish here the better.

Yeah...I know guys. If it was just me and the mrs, I wouldn't even entertain the idea. Regardless of the regularly occurring stupidity here, as adults, it's a joy to live here. Great weather, easy and cheap to do things, and all-round just a great place to live overall.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I'll suffer it to get the nippers off to a good start.

Hit the nail on the head there Slap. As parents, it's our duty to give the kids the best start in life.
And while it's fun for us adults, the kids are very disadvantaged in the long run, if Thailand, it's (globally speaking) backward ways and educational system is all they know.

Thanks for the input chaps
Cheers.

Only reason I did it was for my daughter was 5 when we moved to the UK, 14 now after 10 years of living in Thailand. 9 years just flown by and not too many more to suffer now. In fairness UK isn't that bad unless of course you're skint.

Nice one Bob. You've made an important point, and one that I haven't been able to put my finger on yet. It's not just the education, it's the whole. The UK instills an awareness and a sense of confidence.

Cheers.

The visa system for non EU spouses is scandalous these days and I wouldn't want to go through it now. Back in 2008 got the settlement visa straight away from Bangkok and because had been married over 4 years living overseas got indefinite leave to remain straight away aswell and Brit passport for the misses after 2 years of being in UK. All the shit you have to go through now like living and having a job in the UK for 6 months, the financial requirements and all the tests the spouses have to do now in all honesty I probably wouldn't do it now.

Yeah, I hear you mate. But it is what it is, and we'll have to try and deal with it.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

The visa system for non EU spouses is scandalous these days and I wouldn't want to go through it now. Back in 2008 got the settlement visa straight away from Bangkok and because had been married over 4 years living overseas got indefinite leave to remain straight away aswell and Brit passport for the misses after 2 years of being in UK. All the shit you have to go through now like living and having a job in the UK for 6 months, the financial requirements and all the tests the spouses have to do now in all honesty I probably wouldn't do it now.

the people hit worst by this is women, funnily enough, but most don't think of that. A Woman with young kids basically has zero chance of earning above the threshold and there are literally thousand of women and children in the uK whose husband and kids dad is stuck in another country. They make no account of the fact that the dad would work and together they can meet it. It is the worst type of misogynistic shite from that complete whore Theresa may. One more reason why she deserves stringing up.

Took me 2 tries and about 6k all in, ridiculous and thats after (at the time) 12 years of marriage.

Basically because of unlimited immigration from within the EU only people they could hit was non EU citizens in any feeble attempt to get the numbers down and because of this whole pikey families from Romania or Bulgaria can just stroll into the UK but a non EU spouse of a UK citizen has to go through hell.

You'll just have to chip away at everything and eventually you'll get there.

At the end of the day it's all about giving your children the best possible start in life.

My children are all top of their classes in an ofsted outstanding school.

Lot's of hurdles along the way.

Here's my short story on the topic from this thread...

https://teakdoor.com/thai-visas-and-v...your-wife.html (Tips + tricks to help get your wife settled legally in the UK)

We did it the hard way!

Here's a brief history of the rigmarole we went through...

Married 2003
Tried to get her back to the U.K soon after, was refused and told to come back in 6 months with more evidence of a relationship and paperwork etc

Returned to UK alone, sorted out a place to live/bank statements/ kept records off the contact between us etc

4 months later after i had everything in place i printed off the 6 month tourist visa application from the Bangkok embassy website and filled it in as the missus could not write English well enough. I sent all the paperwork to her house and she took it in to the embassy and paid the fee, same day she got her 6 month visa

I bought a ticket and sent it over to her, only Turkish Airlines would send the ticket to me first. I bought a one year open return from Thailand to Manchester for £400.

She received the ticket from me one week later and was on her way.

At this point my friends and family didn't believe i was married.

So off i pop to the airport to pick the wife up trying to remember what she looked like and wondering how it would all go as we'd only been married a month before i had to return.

Bunch off flowers in hand reduced from the petrol station en route(Nige will love that touch). I get a phone call from the Border agency saying they've detained my wife blah,blah.
It was my best mates bird winding me up
Then i get the real phone call 10 mins later from a real U.K Border Agency immigration Officer who i promptly tell to take his face for a shit and hang up.
He phones back quite bemused and once i'd straightened things out with the humorless twat as he fails to see the funny side.
He states categorically that my wife must leave before the six months.
I reply"Yes, i know!She's only coming for a holiday that's why she's got a return ticket"

They let her in!

Fast forward 6 months and she is pregnant and i apply to the Home office to extend her leave on the grounds that pregnant women can not fly whilst 6 months pregnant because off the risk of DVT .
I even get my local MP involved and the immigration advisory service.
We fought the Home Office on Article 8 - The right to family life.
The Home office took time to reply and by then we have number 1 child.
It actually takes nearly 3 years to get in front off the Home Office immigration Judge at court and by then we have number 2 child.
The Judge was sympathetic to our plight but said we must return to Thailand to go through the correct procedure and gain the settlement visa.
However she said the "deemed leave" my wife had been on for the past few years had served us well(she had a point).

2006 the kids and i on 3 month tourist visas and the missus on her Thai passport return to start the settlement process.
If we had applied for settlement instead of a poxy tourist visa then she would have had ILR and a British passport within the three years as the rules stood back then.

You live and learn and plans change..

2006 we put the settlement visa application in to the Bangkok British Embassy via their outsourcing centre, forget the name.
Had a 6 week minimum wait so headed down to Phuket for a the duration and chilled.

Did a bit of sight seeing and tourist stuff then headed back to Bangkok for the finale.
Stayed in a hotel in sukumvit .
I ended up being a free visa consultant for the many Brits trying to get their girl friends over to the UK. Some funny stories, but that's for another thread.

Had the interview in the embassy eventually with the Cockney black FCO officer who was looking for a fight.
She wouldn't let me in the interview, but i barged in with the babies in each arm and said"They need their mum" and walked out to let them get on with interogating the wife.
The "DVT" angle was our trump card along with a letter from the Home Office judge saying our application should go smoothly in Bangkok.
This the officer was pissed off about as she wanted to refuse my missus for overstaying by 3 years. It was deemed leave and not overstaying so her hands where tied and she granted the visa.
The Embassy staff were obnoxious b'stards and we gave them as good as they gave us.
The Thai receptionist behind the counter came out to have a word with me saying it was better if i took the kids back to the hotel and wait.
I said we are not going anywhere unless together as a family and with the wife and visa.
I let the babies scream near her microphone on the protective glass and watched with amusement as her serene demure evaporated.
Even the Gurkha security guard hung around fiddling with his strap on his khukuri.

We left and celebrated, returning to the U.K after 3 months and £10k lighter.

When the settlement ran out in 2008 my wife has not completed the Life in the U.K test so we applied for Further Leave to remain.
Because of family life and our work commitments 2010 came around quickly and child 3 had been born.
So another 2 year FLR was applied for.
The kids started school and nursery the wife got stuck in to the revision for the LITUK Test and passed.
We applied for Indefinate leave to remain and then British Citizenship.

2013 my wife was the proudest person swearing allegience to the Queen and finally becoming a British Citizen.

She had her passport 6 weeks later

Ten years it took from start to finish!


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Sorry only skimmed your post as low attention span and all that but back in 2006 things should have been a piece of piss and basically free aswell before Jack Straw introduced the massive fees in 2007.

I hadn't set foot in the UK since 2001 when I applied for wife's settlement visa in 2008 and was granted straight away with indefinite leave to remain also based on being married for over 4 years already and living overseas.

Obviously I appreciate things are totally different now in 2018 and not that I generally have a lot of sympathy or empathy for others but this is one subject I do and people shouldn't be subjected to the current criteria which are quite frankly medieval in many respects.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Tell you what- after all the shit we are going through for various reasons I will never ever complain about UK visas ever again. It's fucking ludicrous some of the things they want now including minimum time spent in country in the first tranche of visa.... we've had to stop all our travelling now as otherwise we're fucked. Well... no, because I'm bored with the UK so gonna piss of back to Asia I reckon.

Shag - the UK is shit. DON'T DO IT. You will regret it.

Dream on Suds, dream on.