British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!
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British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!
I posted this on the UK Yankee forum but felt it should be posted here.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
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I posted this on the UK Yankee forum but felt it should be posted here.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
I posted this on the UK Yankee forum but felt it should be posted here.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
May take effect this June
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...crackdown.html
The letter from Mrs May to Nick Clegg, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, proposes a tough new minimum income of £25,700 a year for anyone seeking to bring a spouse, partner or dependant to the UK from outside the European Union from June - almost double the current threshold of £13,700.
The minimum income would rise dramatically - up to £62,600 - if children are also brought in.
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
Why should the UK or any other country let people in if they can not support themselves,so i do not see a problem with it.
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Plus, we are talking about UK citizens wishing to repatriate, not random foreigners.
The UK seems quite willing to support millions of current citizens/residents who have no desire to work, for a lifetime, who AFAIK could marry a European spouse without needing permission.
These things aren't always as simple as they first appear.
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
I agree with bigals sentiment to a degree.
What I don't understand is how the amount is attributed to a couple who are coming without jobs (like we did). Do you have to demonstrate one year's worth of these savings to qualify? Is income and savings the same thing in that case?
What I don't understand is how the amount is attributed to a couple who are coming without jobs (like we did). Do you have to demonstrate one year's worth of these savings to qualify? Is income and savings the same thing in that case?
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
I think the point is whether the amounts in question are really necessary to demonstrate that you can support yourself, not the general principle of demonstrating a minimum income. Is £50k really necessary to support a wife and two children, for example?
Plus, we are talking about UK citizens wishing to repatriate, not random foreigners.
The UK seems quite willing to support millions of current citizens/residents who have no desire to work, for a lifetime, who AFAIK could marry a European spouse without needing permission.
These things aren't always as simple as they first appear.
Plus, we are talking about UK citizens wishing to repatriate, not random foreigners.
The UK seems quite willing to support millions of current citizens/residents who have no desire to work, for a lifetime, who AFAIK could marry a European spouse without needing permission.
These things aren't always as simple as they first appear.
I would like to add I am moving back with a spouse if she gets her visaand have secured a job for 32 k a year and I think it may be tight
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
I agree with bigals sentiment to a degree.
What I don't understand is how the amount is attributed to a couple who are coming without jobs (like we did). Do you have to demonstrate one year's worth of these savings to qualify? Is income and savings the same thing in that case?
What I don't understand is how the amount is attributed to a couple who are coming without jobs (like we did). Do you have to demonstrate one year's worth of these savings to qualify? Is income and savings the same thing in that case?
There should be a clearer, more common sense method of means testing than simple salary bands.
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
Nothing like an inflamatory article in the Telegraph to stir interest and get pulses racing before Sunday dinner. And, to add more spice to the mix, it is based upon 'a leaked cabinet letter'.
The Telegraph is getting even better at this type of journalism than The Daily Mail.
The Telegraph is getting even better at this type of journalism than The Daily Mail.
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Nothing like an inflamatory article in the Telegraph to stir interest and get pulses racing before Sunday dinner. And, to add more spice to the mix, it is based upon 'a leaked cabinet letter'.
The Telegraph is getting even better at this type of journalism than The Daily Mail.
The Telegraph is getting even better at this type of journalism than The Daily Mail.
What's interesting is that the minimum amount of money the government says is needed is far more than it pays most of its civil servants.
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
Then what about assets? $500,000 yields $17,000 per year? $25,000 per year? what assumptions are they going to make?
Boy with hindsight I wish we'd got my wife her citizenship before we left England in 1991!
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Aussie husband is playing this down to me... says it won't apply to us as he'll be earning enough to support himself (I'm the British citizen, but not working, so wouldn't meet the income requirement to bring him back.) I hope he's right. (And hope he can get a job. Auditing.)
As for the children aspect, I'm assuming this extra income is only meant to be required of people bringing non-UK citizen children into the UK?
My child (will be an adult by then) is Aussie born but has a UK passport, so as a British citizen, the extra income required shouldn't be a concern, should it?
As for the children aspect, I'm assuming this extra income is only meant to be required of people bringing non-UK citizen children into the UK?
My child (will be an adult by then) is Aussie born but has a UK passport, so as a British citizen, the extra income required shouldn't be a concern, should it?
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Re: Theresa May wants minimum income of £25,700; £49,000 if you have 2 kids
I am unsure legally how this will work in practice. I would have thought a United Kingdom citizen has the right to marry and bring into the country a person of their choice as long as the relationship can be proved not to be one of convenience. In other words a bonafide marriage. As I understand it is a Human Right. If came into law surely could be contested in European Court?
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I am unsure legally how this will work in practice. I would have thought a United Kingdom citizen has the right to marry and bring into the country a person of their choice as long as the relationship can be proved not to be one of convenience. In other words a bonafide marriage. As I understand it is a Human Right. If came into law surely could be contested in European Court?
One human right that the UK has signed up to is the right to family life. I don't think for one minute that this means you can have a family life just naff off and do it somewhere else.
I imagine someone will challenge it at some point and there will be a huge loss in costs to the UK taxpayer.