I am a final year PhD student. I have my wife with me here in the UK. She is on student dependent. My student visa is expiring in 2026. I have a postdoc at my university and I am switching to global talent visa. I want to know
1. If I can apply for my wife, who is currently a student dependent, to switch to global talent dependent few months after my own application? what are the implications of this for ILR?
2. If I apply for global talent for 3 years and switch my wife later (say after a month of my own visa's approval) this mean she would have less than 3 years on the global talent dependent, does this means we would have to extend the global talent visa so she also has 3 years in order to apply for ILR?
1. If I can apply for my wife, who is currently a student dependent, to switch to global talent dependent few months after my own application? what are the implications of this for ILR?
2. If I apply for global talent for 3 years and switch my wife later (say after a month of my own visa's approval) this mean she would have less than 3 years on the global talent dependent, does this means we would have to extend the global talent visa so she also has 3 years in order to apply for ILR?
