[quote=“JaneJones, post:93, topic:32574”]
As it is household income, so maybe apply together? My interviewer was possibly just being picky (or nosey?). [/quote]
Yes hopefully we’ll get to a point where we can meet the thresholds! I have heard of a guy who has lived here nearly 30 years, works (but smic as so many jobs here are) and got rejected for not being rich enough.
I know and we had hoped that would be what happened and even spoken to people who were hopeful it would go through. It just seemed to be ‘she wasn’t French at birth thatt’s the end of it’!
So do we!!! And we even had to go to the tribunal to be rejected in person! The stupid law was repealed just 2 years later (although MIL didn’t find out she could have her Frenchness back until after that), and MIL got her UK papers just 5 weeks before dh was born (so if he’d been early!!) so spent all that time as being French 
The guy basically said they have to work with what the law was at the time and she wasn’t Frenchat the moment of his birth so tough luck!