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Solweg

Hi, i'm french and swiss, 26yo and married to a uk citizen. We are currently living in Switzerland, and atm we are unemployed. We are planning on moving in Scotland/Glasgow, but i don't know how to get the right to move there. We don't have the amount of money required for a spouse visa, so i don't know what to do. I kept searching in the different visas but it's really complicated...

I have a psychology bachelor idk if it changes anything

Please help me ðŸ™ðŸ»

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Cynic

Hi, i'm french and swiss, 26yo and married to a uk citizen. We are currently living in Switzerland, and atm we are unemployed. We are planning on moving in Scotland/Glasgow, but i don't know how to get the right to move there. We don't have the amount of money required for a spouse visa, so i don't know what to do. I kept searching in the different visas but it's really complicated...
I have a psychology bachelor idk if it changes anything
Please help me ðŸ™ðŸ» - @Solweg


Hi and welcome to the Forum.


UK citizens have the right to return to the UK anytime they wish; as you have found out, if they want to bring their spouse/partner with them on a Family visa, then they need to have enough income/savings to support their spouse/partner and the UK Government has set a specific limit for this.  If you can't qualify for the family visa, then either your partner needs to get a job that qualifies, or you will need to find a job with an employer that will sponsor the job application and pay enough to qualify for a work-based residence permit


When it comes to finding work anywhere in the world, you need the following:


  1. Relevant qualifications.
  2. Relevant Experience.
  3. Speak/write the local language.
  4. Luck.


How do you do that?  Try signing up to LinkedIn and reaching out to your peers to find out who is hiring, .


I hope this has helped and I wish you the best of luck.


Cynic

Expat Team

Solweg

@Cynic

Thank you so much !

Also, i saw somewhere that as an EU citizen I don't need a visa for the 6 first months. Is it true?

SimCityAT

@Cynic
Thank you so much !
Also, i saw somewhere that as an EU citizen I don't need a visa for the 6 first months. Is it true? - @Solweg

Cynic

@Cynic
Thank you so much !
Also, i saw somewhere that as an EU citizen I don't need a visa for the 6 first months. Is it true? - @Solweg
- @SimCityAT

To add to what SimCityAT has provided.  These are visitor visas, after 6 months you would have to leave.  However, if, for example, your partner managed to get a job that paid the qualifying salary, then you could travel to the UK on the visitor visa and then go through the UK  residency process; this means you would still have to go through whatever requirements are extant for the visitor visa at that time, the benefit of this is it would be a lot quicker, my daughters husband used this method when they moved back to the UK a few years ago.

Cynic

I just had a brainwave; you said you had a psychology bachelor degree; you could consider going back to University in the UK and doing the next level; this may help you find the right one.

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