This isn’t a “brexit rule” and it’s disgusting for The Guardian to frame it that way as using someone’s suffering to make a point about Brexit.
I know this could be a “if we were still in the EU this wouldn’t happen” thing, or dismissed as another “brexit and it’s consequences” article, but this shouldn’t happen at all- EU citizen or non EU citizen. The fact the guy is an EU citizen is entirely irrelevant.
Having a salary requirement on a spouse visa is extremely extremely idiotic, stupid, disgusting and an abuse of human rights, specifically article 8. Apparently even Japan is less strict for foreign spouses- and that country is notoriously difficult to migrate to.
I do not know how more people aren’t talking about this. It’s essentially a punishment for daring to fall in love with someone who isn’t British/Irish
“Love is love” until you dare fall in love with someone of the wrong nationality, it seems.
It’s essentially a punishment for daring to fall in love with someone who isn’t British/Irish
OR rich.
Which makes it worse.
“We’re racist, but if you’re rich, we’ll overlook it”
It’s completely vile.
Tory pandering to the rabid anti-eu minority leaves us in this situation.
No stay at home parents or trophy spouses then.
I’m sure that applies to rich people too. /s
Looks like there’s a rich person loophole if you have at least £88K in savings.
What? So marrying a foreigner is a “trophy spouse”? Isn’t saying such a thing literally racism?
I’m saying a rich person would probably be able to get around this
Oh okay
But under the current, post-Brexit immigration regime, she must earn more than £29,000 and have been working in a job paying that for at least six months in the UK before she can apply for a family visa that would allow her husband to move here, or have £88,500 in cash savings.
So basically it’s not that both need to be working, it’s that the current citizen (I.e. her) needs to have been working in the country for at least 6 months. Also the last line is your rich person loophole.
Not just working, but earning at least 29,000.
I believe the rule can be combined with the spouse’s income, but the spouse needs the visa to get a job in the first place to meet the requirement.
So discriminatory.
Imagine breaking up families because the British one gets disabled and can’t work.
