Moving to UK after living in US

[crazyworld 54]

I have a question about moving to the UK after living in US.

We have filled our I-129F and are planning to get married here in the US in early spring if all goes as planned. We are planning to live in the US until my mum passes on and then I will retire so then planning to move to the UK to be with her mum until her time comes. My question is will my bride to be still have her UK citizenship? If not is there something we need to do?

[Illiria 980]

Unless your fiancé actively applies to loose her UK citizenship then she will retain it and even if she did apply to resind her Uk citizenship she could only do that if she already had another citizenship.

The issue that may be a problem for you comes with her being able to bring you over to the UK, as she will need to be earning in the uk over a certain amounting order to sponsor you to come over, this cannot be in savings or be from a co sponsor.

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

You do understand it will take around four years for her to become a U.S. Citizen? Then you won't have to worry about coming back to the U.S. if you decide to. No worry about maintaining her permanent resident status that way.

[crazyworld 54]

Unless your fiancé actively applies to loose her UK citizenship then she will retain it and even if she did apply to resind her Uk citizenship she could only do that if she already had another citizenship.

The issue that may be a problem for you comes with her being able to bring you over to the UK, as she will need to be earning in the uk over a certain amounting order to sponsor you to come over, this cannot be in savings or be from a co sponsor.

Nice for the first part!

Yes that worries me as reading some information here! Once I retire, I will be able to support both of us with no problem here. I know it would be enough to support both of us there too. She will be getting a nice pension too from the RAF but that would be down the line. If we are married and have joint accounts showing enough in them to support us without working would that work?

Thanks for the reply Illiria

[crazyworld 54]

You do understand it will take around four years for her to become a U.S. Citizen? Then you won't have to worry about coming back to the U.S. if you decide to. No worry about maintaining her permanent resident status that way.

Yes I know, mums got a good 5 to 10 years to go and if something happens earlier then we will wait until all is completed here before we would move to UK so that we both could return to US if we wanted too.

Thanks again Nich-Nick!

[Illiria 980]

You must also meet the financial requirement of:

£18,600 per year if youre applying only for yourself

£22,400 per year for you and one child

£2,400 per year for each additional child

There are actually clauses for savings, as it is quite a lot I had been dismissing it accidentally. If you google gov.uk and application to join spouse you should find the instructions. It's around £63,000 in savings if you want to avoid having to show an income.