Immigration rules are destroying my family

"A new mum who claims who claims that her family has been torn apart by immigration rules is set to take her fight to Westminster.

Shelley Hornby-Baaouani, 28 who lives in Great Denham married her husband Walid in Tunisia in December last year, two months before their son Rayen was born.

But Walid has missed his first son’s birth, and big chunks of his early life, after problems calculating Shelley’s salary, as a result of new Home Office rules, have meant that the application will not be reviewed again until October.

And even though the salary comes to over the required £18,600 a year Shelley claims that immigration officials unfairly calculated it by her lowest pay slip and multiplied that by twelve months."

http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/local/immigration-rules-are-destroying-my-family-1-5226500

The applicant. has appealed the ukba as a matter of political policy seeks to deny whereever it can ,fortunatly there is still indipentent thought among our judges who regularly overturn such desisions

I've noticed how critical you are to me in most of my post hils:
and yet your fortunately spells fortunatly and independent is indipentent and decisions spells desisions! 4 mistakes in one post! including The applicant (should not have period)

English is not my mother tongue, but surely! if you are to criticise an Asian, ensure your English is perfect!
I am just pointing out “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” :amen:

And back to the topic. I felt that way too when we applied for my spouse visa in Qatar. They had turned down my spouse visa at first because my husband did not submit his bank statement. But who is to know? They never give us any indication or instructions when we apply.
The UKBA abroad is even worse; all they put on their leaflet was; filling the application form, passport information, marriage certificate and photos, no information about any other supporting documents. Frankly speaking, we had no way of knowing how this processing really goes.
I haven’t come across this forum before and as I said earlier, the previous forum I visited (BritishExpat) is not as helpful as British-Filipino and they have tons of tons of post there that I find difficult to track my own previous post..
I only found out about this forum when I already had my Indefinite Leave to Remain. So I was excited to share my experience how I did my ILR without any hassle compared to my spouse visa.
Anyway, we appealed and we were told that the lacking in our documents is my husband’s financial details. After we submitted his bank statement plus the employer’s letter stating how much he will receive at the end of his contract in the company. Then they called us after couple of weeks and say my visa is ready!!!
But this time, I think they give specific requirements.

Critical? How so? I enjoyed immensily your endearing "Britisher" word and have adopted it . I have also asked if you have any further info regarding "litigation sucsess" for Kanos I have reread your quotation of my words here in this thread and am unable to see any critisism within it or any connection to you at all perhaps you could elaborate further. oh and do feel free to spell check my posts if you have time to spare

Salami like fingers??? :shock:

Oh well! this is the reason why I gave up my blackberry mobile. The keyboard is too tiny for my liking!

Interesting! I just realised there's a spell checker on iPad 4! :badpc:

Select settings from the home screen....
General.....
Keyboard... and there are a number of options here including spelling.
:cheer:

and back to topic!!!

Nowadays, UKBA are more detailed with their requirements. :hippie:

I think I said something similar but a bit more critical of THEMlol

I wonder what will happen to some of my friends who will not meet the minimum salary income required to bring their spouse or relatives over!
My friends cannot settle in the UK!

You know, I have become very twitchy about my spelling after being pulled up for spelling dabble as dable. I think it's my upbringing wot dun it.

Politics playing with peoples lives

I think calculating the lowest month salary is very unfair, as that could be due to sickness or other 3rd party type of problems that may of arisen, for example, unpaid leave.
If they are going to do it that way, then surely they should look into why the wage for one month is not as high, not just assume and take for granted!
If she is settled in the UK and now has family, she could appeal to the European Courts of Human Rights on the case that her and her families right to stay in a country that ensures their safety and will not cruelly separate them, especially if they meet all of the requirements.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it one of Mr Camerons policies to ensure families are kept together, as he was disgusted with the amount of separated families?

My fingers are crossed for this woman and her family

Well, fortunately, it has come to light that they will now take ones income over the course of a year and not boot the application out if one month is below the threshold.

I would appreciate the tax office working in a similar manner and dropping me below the tax threshold for a bad month
But seriously I do think its a little strange they find working that way is acceptable. But looks like they have realised they were wrong with the update from JohnAsh.

Do they take contractual obligations into account? Reason I am asking is there are people on 0 hour contracts and 16 hour even though they may be doing 50 hours a week.

Im wondering if this affects the £18,500 threshold as its not guaranteed work. I am contractual on fixed salary for the opposite reason (hours are always way over the 40 hour week and as such are just expected not paid).