Emigration from SA to UK

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

To answer your specific question; you have 3 options:

The savings route (the one you don't like).

Highly skilled migrant; you would need to find a job from a list of occupations on the "Shortage Occupation List"; this link will take you to the UK.Gov website that lists them.  If you can find one of these jobs, your employer sponsors your visa.

You could go the job/income route; where your wife (as the UK citizen) has a job in the UK earning over £18.6k p/annum.  It would entail 6 months separation while she got the 6 monthly payslips.

I suspect I may not have helped you very much, but I wish you the best of luck in your families journey.

Cynic
Expat Team

Thanks for your reply Cynic,

We've done some sums and can meet the financial requirements by withdrawing our pensions but that would mean having to wait for at least another 9 months before applying for my visa. (I am concerned about BREXIT 29 MARCH 2019)
Is it possible for me to have a family member in the UK sponsor me until such time as the money is in my bank.
Thanks again