Labour scrapping the Tory increase in income requirement for Settlement visas

[brewsterbudgen]

Nice one Labour.  

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13693279/Labour-DROPS-tough-Tory-plan-stop-people-earning-38-700-bringing-foreign-spouses-partners-UK.html

 

(Apologies for the Daily Mail link...)

[supersomchai]

Yes thank you labour thats a life changing decision for many people

😀👍😀

[Dogmatix]

It is a Tory law from Teresa May which should be scrapped completely or reduced to the level of the miserly state pension for a married person which the government obviously believes is perfectly adequate for a couple to live on.

 

My nephew was unable to bring his Filipina wife to the UK due to this law after becoming unemployed overseas and unable to find a new job abroad.

[HK MacPhooey]

2 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

It is a Tory law from Teresa May which should be scrapped completely or reduced to the level of the miserly state pension for a married person which the government obviously believes is perfectly adequate for a couple to live on.

 

My nephew was unable to bring his Filipina wife to the UK due to this law after becoming unemployed overseas and unable to find a new job abroad.

Be sure Labour’s plan is not to make it easier for Brits to take their spouses back to the UK

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, HK MacPhooey said:

Be sure Labour’s plan is not to make it easier for Brits to take their spouses back to the UK

In a way, they just did that by stopping a higher income threshold, or how do you see that? Do you see it as finances aren´t an obstacle for many people in the process?

[TheFishman1]

I guess there’s two sides of a piece of bacon

[ipeterrobinson17]

they didn't scrap it (although they may well eventually), they said the planned future increases from the current 29,000 are on hold until a new review is carried out.

 

38,700 was planned for early 2025.