{"id":805040,"date":"2026-03-05T06:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/805040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:20:14","slug":"report-shows-uk-eu-couples-face-arduous-system-post-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/805040\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows UK-EU couples face &#8216;arduous&#8217; system post-Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The system causes enormous amounts of stress and pressure on families,&#8221; the professor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Children are separated from parents, families have to sacrifice plans for buying a home and some have to change their plans completely and move abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Couples also face extra costs for visa applications and healthcare surcharges, with some being pushed into debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These extra costs can amount to \u00a312,000 for someone getting indefinite leave to remain over five years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Couples who live outside of the UK can also be prevented from returning to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brexit Couples report was presented to ministers in Parliament this week, calling for changes to the system, including lowering the minimum income requirement (MIR) for British partners and a reduction in visa costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the Migration Advisory Committee, also recommended for the MIR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2lk87l9dvno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to be lowered<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The system causes enormous amounts of stress and pressure on families,&#8221; the professor said. &#8220;Children are separated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-805040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116175125303316848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}