Labour DROPS tough Tory plan to stop people earning under £38,700 from bringing foreign spouses or partners to the UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13693279/Labour-DROPS-tough-Tory-plan-stop-people-earning-38-700-bringing-foreign-spouses-partners-UK.html
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Hmm not sure what to think of that.
I agree that people should be able to love and marry people from overseas and have them live in the UK without needing to be on a salary which is going to be prohibitive to most people. That said though. At the same time though, there does need to be a certain level of income required so that the foreign spouse isn’t overly reliant on the state.
Not dropped at all then; it was planned by the Tories to go to £38,700 by 2025, but it was obviously never implemented. Labour are maintaining the current threshold (as set by the Tories at the last Parliament) of £29,000 until such time as a review is completed.
Keeps the Taxi drivers etc easily capable of bringing their wife-to-be over. Soon to be followed by countless other family members. One big ponzi scheme
Very glad to hear it! No other European country has such prohibitively high threshold for bringing spouses or partners into their countries. People who come in with a partner or marriage visa is miniscule anyway. Definitely the wrong group to target if the sole goal is to bring migration down.
This is just complete madness – net immigration has been running at over **half a million** per year… and in 2022 it was 745,000…
Even if Labour manage to boost house building from the current levels of around 200,000 new units to year to let’s say 250,000 per annum… that extra effort in their signature manifesto policy of expanding house building will all be for nothing if they reverse the recent Tory changes which tried to reduce the numbers of visas being given to dependants.
Good. This will never impact me, but the government had no business legislating which consenting adults are allowed to love each other, and this bill wouldn’t have actually done anything to get immigration under control. Even if it stopped **every single person that migrates to this country through marriage**, we would still have a crisis. Classic tory overreach, glad Labour killed it. Labour election dividend.
A welcome decision. Shame on the Tories and their media cheerleaders who tried to price the majority of Brits out of the right to love a foreigner without being forced to emigrate.
“Tough” Tory plan is certainly a choice of words there.
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Rightfully so. All this did was prevent people who respected the country’s laws from bringing their family over.
Who could have predicted this? So many who want to reduce the record numbers have been lied to, ah well they deserve it.
I generally like Kier. This I dislike, think it’s stupid!
‘There’s no money – we need tax rises- there’s no choice!’
Good it’s a godawful policy and it’s forcing British citizens to leave the country, there should be no limit at all.
Then they need to cut default services offered by the state to whatever level stops them being a net drain.
def need to increase taxes now.
I mean, complaining about 22bn gap in the budget just to allow more people to sit in this country on benefits and drain public funds.
No there is still an income requirement of £29k. Labour stopped it from rising to £38k
The requirements are nuts. Beyond the money there’s a shit Ton of paperwork and evidence to submit.
As a requirement the money doesn’t really work as there are services that will transfer large sums of money to your account for the duration of your application.
Makes sense to make money less of a factor and leverage the elements where people get exposed anyway
Good, it was a fucking nasty piece of legislation.
It still is, but at least they’ve stopped it getting worse.
Just to placate nasty, racist bastards, it could have split up my family, thanks to the crime of me marrying and having children with a European lady before Brexit when we both had freedom of movement, which they also took away.
The same people who are smashing up British cities and attacking the police are also demanding we make things harder for British people with foreign spouses, and we’re supposed to indulge them. No thanks.
The comments in this thread are some of the most nasty I’ve seen. The idea that someone should be able to live with their partner should be a human right, but we’re reduced to crying about “drain” on services. Pathetic
For spouses of British citizens the requirement should only be that the marriage is legitimate and that you both have the ability to earn a living.
Other countries are nowhere near as strict.
This is one avenue that should never be strict as long as a legitimate partner of a citizen wants to live together.
It’s funny to watch British people applaud as they are gradually turned back into serfs.
“**No, you can’t move to Europe unimpeded so as to pursue education or economic opportunities anymore. Compared to before, you’re practically trapped here in the UK. You can’t even travel to Europe as a tourist unimpeded anymore.**”
“*Ah well, that makes sense. Can’t really complain since the people voted for it, and it would be rude to bring it up again until a few generations have passed. Nevermind…*”
“**No, you can’t have a decent, mould-free home like people in other developed countries. You need to create a regimen of anti-condensation behaviours and spend your own money on dehumidifiers before you ever trifle your landlord about it.**”
“*Well, fair enough. I mean, how hard is it to wipe down the walls and constantly run fans and dehumidifiers and keep windows open all the time even when it’s freezing/blazing out, anyway? People are just lazy…*”
“**No, you can’t fall in love somewhere else and bring your new spouse home relatively easily, like people in other developed countries generally can. To do is a privilege of the gentry.**”
“*That sounds sensible. Did you know that you don’t contribute anything to the economy unless you make at least 50K anyway? If you ask me, we’re just lucky our lords permit us to live here at all given how we’re all such filthy leeches…*”
Good. An arbitrary financial figure is just gesture politics.
A point based system should be implemented, extra points for jobs we are struggling to fill, spousal applications etc.
Labour should also be clear on the difference between immigrants and Asylum Seekers. Separate groups, separate rules.
finally some good news.
British citizens should be able to bring their wives or husbands to the UK and keep them there. Full stop.
Like every other normal country.
Good. It was ridiculously unfair. A shite policy to appease the baying racist mob.
I think a lot of people here who are on the fence about this are seriously forgetting £38.7k in one part of the country is not the same as £38.7k in another part of the country.
You can live like a king if you earn 38.7k here in the arse end of Sunderland. I don’t actually know many people who actually earn above that beyond exceptionally skilled people and executives.
We don’t all live on London wages, nor do we need them. Even the current £29k is almost pushing it.
In fact, if I told my friends and family they needed to earn £38k to marry, literally none of them could get married.
Excellent news. My wife is from another country, if either of us lost our jobs by the time she’d have to do her *second* spouse visa (another £3600+ for 2 1/2 years), she would’ve been rejected and forced to leave even though just one of our incomes is enough to support both of us as was the case when she moved here and had no job.
“Tough Tory plan”? No. Unnecessary cruel plan. I’m glad I voted Labour.