Thank you for all your explanations Clara, much appreciated.

I've just worked through half a dozen on-line tests just out of interest and failed 4 out of 6 of them! Perhaps I should study too!

Thank you both for your replies. Casa thank you for your careful and detailed reply. So if I follow Wanderer's suggestion, my wife would visit UK, pass the test and then back in Turkey apply for ILE. Armed with that, once we have arrived to live in England does she have to apply for IRL or is ILE ...

I’d be grateful if anyone has experience of this, please: I’m a UK national, left UK 7 years ago to marry my Turkish wife and have lived together in Turkey for 7 years. We now want to settle in the UK and we will be travelling there together. I gather from the UK Borders Agency website (extract b ...