ILR SET M online income requirement

[shinx]

Hi there first of all thanks for a great forum. I am assisting my wife to apply for ILR 5 year route. Her salary for the first two months of her 6 month requirement is just below the 18,600 however she has a long employment and also a second employment that she has now left would cover the shortfall. If you try to add a second employment the form assumes it is current. We want to add this somehow however the form appears not to allow you an earlier second employment - unless I am missing something. We note that if you select the shortfall income option the document requirement reverts to 12 month payslip rather than 6.

I have only progressed it thus far to the Declaration page. Has anyone gone through this and could advise perhaps if this can be added as a note later on or how they dealt with it?

Also when it comes to the documentation submission how easy was that to upload as it seems we will need a lot of documents submitted?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

[zimba]

If she had 6 months payslip above the financial requirement then yes the 6 months payslip would have been enough under category A. However as she has a shortfall, she has to rely on her second employment and therefore a variable income which is evaluated under category B. This may explain why the form changes to the 12 months payslip requirement. In a nutshell, she simply needs to show she gets paid above the threshold at the moment and also provide 12 months worth of details on her other/previous employment(s) so an overall gross annual income to be calculated which must be above £18,600

Under Category B, the financial requirement must be met and evidenced in two parts:

First, where the applicant’s partner and/or the applicant (if they are in the UK with permission to work) is in salaried employment at the date of application and has been with the same employer, or earning the amount relied upon, for less than the last 6 months, they can count the gross annual salary at the date of application towards the financial requirement. There is no required minimum period for this current employment...

Second, the person must in addition have received in the 12 months prior to the date of application the level of income required to meet the financial requirement, based on:
• The gross amount of salaried or non-salaried employment income of the applicant’s partner (in the UK or overseas) and/or the applicant (if they are in the UK with permission to work);
• The gross amount of any specified non-employment income received by the applicant’s partner, the applicant or both jointly, provided they continue to own the relevant asset (e.g. property, interest from shares) at the date of application; and/or
• The gross amount of any State (UK or foreign), occupational or private pension received by the applicant’s partner or the applicant.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... ext_1_.pdf

[shinx]

Thank you that's a much appreciated reply. If in the form you try to add her second employment it assumes current and if I try to add my state pension once again it assumes a current employment. This leaves us with the only option of adding extra documents payslips etc and a covering letter.