Adequate maintenance

Produced in partnership with Jo Renshaw of Turpin Miller
Practice notes

Adequate maintenance

Produced in partnership with Jo Renshaw of Turpin Miller

Practice notes
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For partners and children applying under Appendix FM where the sponsoring partner is receiving one or more specified benefits, there is no minimum income requirement for the five year route to settlement, and the relevant financial test is that of ‘adequate maintenance’. An adequate maintenance requirement is also the requirement for parents applying under Appendix FM, other family members applying under Appendix Adult Dependent Relative and children of settled parents who are applying under Part 8 of the Immigration Rules, although there are key differences in relation to the treatment of third party support and offers of employment under Part 8. It is unlikely that there will be partners or other family members applying now under Part 8 of the Immigration Rules, but it is possible advisers may come across someone who has somehow remained on that route without obtaining settlement and so may still be able to benefit from the transitional provisions. For more information on the surviving sections of Part 8 see: Finding your way around Appendix FM.

Specified benefits

The 'specified benefits' listed in the partners

Jo Renshaw
Jo Renshaw

Jo has practised exclusively in Immigration law since qualification in 1993. She is qualified to practice in both Australia and the United Kingdom and has worked as an immigration solicitor for many years in both jurisdictions.

She joined Turpin and Miller Solicitors in 2005, becoming a Partner in 2008. She has been head of the firm's large Immigration Team since 2007. She has worked as a Peer Reviewer in the Immigration category and is one of only a small number of Immigration practitioners accredited by the Law Society at Advanced Level.

Jo's practice is broad based and covers all aspects of immigration and asylum law. She is a member of the firm's specialist Skilled Migration Team and has a particular interest in Points Based matters. Throughout her career she has also had a keen interest in Asylum work, heading the Refugee Advice Service at a national level in Australia prior to returning to the UK. She has maintained this expertise at Turpin and Miller, acts as external legal advisor to an asylum charity based in Southampton and gives training on all aspects of asylum law to charities, social services departments and other voluntary bodies.

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Key definition:
Maintenance definition
What does Maintenance mean?

Payments made to a spouse or civil partner or a former spouse or civil partner for themselves or for a child of the family.

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