u/Kitchen_Gap_6714

This group helped me immensely in my application so thank you all.

• Date of Application - 16 May 2am (When I found the super priority application slot). I paid the IHS fees and woke up at 1am or 2am to find a super priority slot. Finally found one and didn’t regret spending that £1000.

• Biometrics - 20 May 9:30 am

• Approval - 20 May 14:30

I was on a graduate visa and then moved to a spousal visa.

Since my partner was under category B and I was category A, I only used my salary to fulfill the financial requirement as the main applicant and was approved. Citizens Advice told me I can’t apply based on my salary alone and have to use my partner’s salary. They were wrong. Please don’t use them for anything immigration tbh.

Also, I got a pay raise (£35020) from April 2026 onwards but I chose option 1 (salaried and earning same amount continuously). I was earning £34000 before that. I didn’t mention any of this in the cover letter just provided my payslips, bank statement and letter of employment.

The documents I uploaded:

1. All pages scan of my passport
2. All pages scan of my partner’s passport
3. Marriage Certificate
4. Photographic Evidence - Photos of us from each month dated from when we got together to our wedding. Time stamps and dates in one file.
5. Train tickets for when we were doing long distance in one file.
6. Holiday Tickets in file.
7. Joint Tenancy Agreement, Joint Bank Statement, Joint Energy Bill, Joint Council Tax (from when we started living together to present with 6 months of gap between each. It’s not necessary when you’re applying first time but these are Tier 1 documents to prove your relationship is real)
8. My payslips (6 months) (I put them in one file)
9. My bank statements (6 months)
10. My employment contract
11. My letter of employment (should be dated within 28 days of application)
12. My academic transcript
13. Third party consent forms (printed it out, signed it and then scanned it)
    • I signed Part 1
    • Partner signed Part 2
    • Left Part 3 blank but attached it
14. Spousal Declaration
15. Cover Letter and index
16. Document Checklist.

Hi,

I (main applicant) am on a salaried income earning £35000 while my British partner (sponsor) is unsalaried £28000 who’s been working for 7 months.

As title suggests, do we both have to be on salaried income to count as household income?