You have successfully gained your UK spouse visa and things are going great in the UK, you are enjoying the lifestyle, work and living in the UK. But there is a big cloud of visa expiry dates approaching you. What would you do? But there is no need to worry.

Let us understand how to extend a UK spouse visa after staying in the UK for 2.5 years.

Know your expiry date

Firstly, it is important to identify when your visa expires. Knowing the date is critical in making the decision to begin renewal applications. The critical thing to recall is that you should apply to extend your spouse visa before it terminates, in any case, you can just apply for an extension whenever you have held your visa for a long time and a half year.

You should set yourself updates in case you will do it without anyone's help, or you should track down a solid visa advisor to remind you well ahead of time. By doing this you don't need to stress over missing the cutoff time.

Fulfilling the requirements

Financial prerequisites

The financial requirements could appear overwhelming to you at first glance but not being able to meet them could delay your spouse visa extension or reject it other times.

While applying for your application for extension, you will be needed to show you can meet the monetary prerequisite. 

You should show that you and your UK accomplice have a yearly consolidated pay of £18,600, or money reserve funds of £62,500. 

The records expected to fulfill this necessity are broad so it's ideal to begin way ahead of time.

Special requirements for children, if you have

If you're applying for a dependent child along with your spouse visa extension application,  you must carefully consider the additional financial requirement for your children.

To consider an application for primary kids, you'll need an additional £3,800 in gross yearly pay, and for each extra child, you'll need £2,400.

At the point when children are associated with applications, the wellbeing of the kids will be the essential thought in the application. The achievement or disappointment of your application depends intensely on how it is introduced. Unequivocally you must address your unique visa need with a UK immigration solicitor to guarantee everything goes without a hitch.

Alternate ways to consider application 

There are other ways to consider your application without the traditional salary methodology, you can also show other means of income from,

1. Self employment
2. Pension
3. Additional cash savings in previous years
4. Non employment sources like income from shares and dividends.

Application process and fee structure

Whether you are applying for a spouse visa or spouse visa extension, you will usually need to wait for 8 weeks before the Home Office decides on your application.The IHS costs £400 per year until expiry date.

Basic application fee is £1,033 and for super priority service you need to pay  £800 for result in 1 working day.

Legal advice for a successful application

You must know that the Home Office has grown stricter in terms of visa applications.

An immigration solicitor can help you guide through the application process.

A Y & J Solicitors have been helping spouse visa applicants for over 10 years now with 100% customer satisfaction rate.

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