Re: can I have some advice from people who may be known to this problem?
Coffeegirl, there are ways around this law desis find a way round things that don’t suit!.
The law states you must be earning over £18,000 a year. You need to provide 6 months wageslips, and provide documentation to prove you have somewhere to live.
The issue is desi people have found the following tricks to get paperwork through the HO and people are likely to advise your father of these:
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there have been folks who pay people with property and legally put businesses into the said girl/boys name to prove earnings. This gives them a fixed amount of earning on top of their standard say £12,000 a year income which takes them over the government required threshold.
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self employed folk are ‘docking’ their income to get round the loophole.
So basically desi folk have found ways around the requirement.
My advice-stay strong and avoid the idea of potentially getting married and not bring spouse over.
There are plenty of organisations and even womens refuges who you could contact for support.
Forced marriages are a reality the HO are aware of. Ideally you don’t want to get tangled up in one.
I doubt highly your Father will listen to a word you say in regards to the threshold earnings. My mothers cousins husband refuse to listen to us when we explained his 17 year old daughter couldn’t bring over her husband because she was underage. They submitted the paperwork, it was refused. She waited around her pendoo partner got too big for his boots and she’s now moved onto marriage number 2.
Good Luck!