Financial status to emigrate

[scwfm]

We are looking to emigrate next year. The application for retired residency states you must have annuity or other pension payments to make up the minimum income required. Is this a strict rule or can other investments that provide an income be used. eg. ISA's and Unit trusts etc

[alphadog]

I have gone into considerable depth on the immigration issue. My stepson lives in CT with SA wife and child. At first, I thought it would be easy ... however, I now have to have an income of 20,000 ZAR for life (however long that may be!) and I have to have a PCN (police computer network) clearance from EVERY country that I have lived in since I was 18! (England, Germany, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, etc.)

My wife can go in as a blood relative of her son ... personally, I have given up.

Eric