You have to earn £38,700 before your overseas partner/spouse can live in the UK

[mwgdrwg]

Couples 'devastated' by migration visa rule changes

New rules will make it harder for British citizens to live in the UK with a foreign partner.

www.bbc.co.uk

Well, I am getting married in the spring. Now my soon to be wife can't live here. Hardly anyone earns £39K in North West Wales. Well, fuck.

 

[Riklet]

Sorry to hear that. Can you bring it forward and get her over here before that rules comes into place? Seems very unfair. But it's still 4 months away so I hope you can make it work.

It's also a very stupid policy as it favors people immigrating to London or the South East where salaries are higher. And there are already too many bloody people competing for jobs.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I guess I'll be emigrating!

 

[mwgdrwg]

Sorry to hear that. Can you bring it forward and get her over here before that rules comes into place? Seems very unfair.

We were thinking she might live here for a bit and we'd actually settle in her country eventually anyway. So we'll just have to do that...but my son is a bit young so we will have to wait a couple of years now.

 

[krtek a houby]

What an awful place it's become under the Tories.

Sorry to hear this, mwgdrwg emigration is an upheaval and adjustment but sometimes a fresh start somewhere new can be uplifting.

Obviously still shit that the choice is being made for you.

 

[Yossarian]

A rise of more than £20,000 in the threshold, that's fucked - how does the government think forcing couples, especially younger ones, to emigrate is going to benefit the country?

 

[ska invita]

I guess I'll be emigrating!

I really feel for you...I wouldn't have had my previous long term relationship even under the old lower Tory set limit.... It's naked class war. Supported by Labour of course

 

[belboid]

It's cruel and fucking stupid. The whole thing is going to completely fuck the NHS and social care. Even in tory terms it doesn't really make any sense.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

A rise of more than £20,000 in the threshold, that's fucked - how does the government think forcing couples, especially younger ones, to emigrate is going to benefit the country?

tory cap on:
it is to reduce that "legal" immigration we voted brexit in for so we have control of "our" borders
tory cap off:
the usual "vote for me" shit show appealing to a hardcore of not gonna get them in voters

e2a: sorry about your situation mwgdrwg it's fecking shit

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Couples 'devastated' by migration visa rule changes

New rules will make it harder for British citizens to live in the UK with a foreign partner.

www.bbc.co.uk

Well, I am getting married in the spring. Now my soon to be wife can't live here. Hardly anyone earns £39K in North West Wales. Well, fuck.

My bet is this actually never comes in…

 

[Yossarian]

tory cap on:
it is to reduce that "legal" immigration we voted brexit in for so we have control of "our" borders
tory cap off:
the usual "vote for me" shit show appealing to a hardcore of not gonna get them in voters

e2a: sorry about your situation mwgdrwg it's fecking shit

It's sickening seeing these Tory pigs boast about all the families their policies will keep separated

 

[PR1Berske]

A rise of more than £20,000 in the threshold, that's fucked - how does the government think forcing couples, especially younger ones, to emigrate is going to benefit the country?

One of my closest friends married his wife in her home state of NY last year, when the threshold seemed manageable for NW England though it was still a struggle they didn't need on top of everything else.

It's a complete clusterfruitcake and because the British psyche has always been easily led on immigration it'll only ever get worse.

 

[kalidarkone]

This will be a nightmare for overseas nurses.

 

[dessiato]

This will devastate the caring professions which, from observation, depend heavily on immigrant labour.

This country is increasingly dystopian.

@mwdrwg I hope you manage to get it all worked out somehow. Is it possible to get your SO here, get married now? Would that get round this shit situation? Maybe later have a second ceremony in their home country so that part of the family can celebrate. Whatever happens, I hope you have a long and happy life together, wherever that might be.

 

[_Russ_]

mwgdrwg, Radio 4 piece yesterday mentioned that this limit didn't apply to agricultural workers except in managerial positions and above. I imagine there will a few more areas that get lower limits as the tories need to keep a supply of cheap labour flowing to work for their chumps companies
Good luck

 

[kebabking]

It's utterly mental...

mwgdrwg - get married asap, just get the admin done, and have the party in the spring.

You may well have a plan to live overseas, but it's a good plan to have other options if there's a problem down the road.

 

[Pickman's model]

My bet is this actually never comes in…

On the basis that... like the government will ensure this is subject to proper parliamentary debate and would never use secondary legislation to force through such changes

 

[cupid_stunt]

The pervious amount of £18,600 plus extra per child was bad enough, trapped one of my old mates out of the country, he needed to earn nearer £25k to get his wife and two kids in, but this latest increase is beyond belief.

 

[Plumdaff]

It's like they looked at pay scales in the public sector and picked a number that would completely fuck them up.

 

[JimW]

We had considered moving to the UK for our eldest to go to secondary school but that's a pipe dream now.

 

[weepiper]

It doesn't personally affect me but are they mad, I've literally never earned over £20k in my life.

 

[JimW]

I've got more chance of getting permanent residence in this autocratic Leninist state with zero history of wanting immigrants.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I’ve got fairly well paid colleagues whose family life plans to bring their kids and wives back to U.K. have been utterly smashed.

Their Union Jack waving, expat anti immigrant, brexit stance coming to bite them on their arses.

This country is fucked. Can the next Government even scratch the surface of this absolute cluster fuck

 

[Whagwan]

My little bro has been living in Taiwan with his (Taiwanese) wife, they have one kid and another on the way. They were planning to move to the UK.

They aren't now.

 

[MickiQ]

This will be a nightmare for overseas nurses.

It's going to cause utter fucking chaos in that regard, the new minimum salary for overseas work visas is above the salary of a Band 5 nurse. My daughter and daughter-in-law both tell me that about half of their fellow nurses are non-UK nationals so unless there is an exception for nurses then there are going to be tumbleweeds rolling down the wards.

 

[MickiQ]

It's like they looked at pay scales in the public sector and picked a number that would completely fuck them up.

You're probably right it is a bit of an oddly specific number to pick as opposed to say £35,000 or £40,000

 

[Brayfart]

I'm a professional with a degree and a steady job (though admittedly not a go-getter) and wouldn't be married if this law had been in place fourteen years ago.

 

[krtek a houby]

Briefly considered maybe one day the option of returning to UK if it all goes arse this neck of the woods. Not a chance of that, now.

Ireland also looking dubious. Guess we be here for the longest term.

 

[Plumdaff]

You're probably right it is a bit of an oddly specific number to pick as opposed to say £35,000 or £40,000

If it were £35k a newly promoted senior ward nurse could bring their spouse over. Can't be having that. This rules out the vast majority of nurses and allied health professionals.

 

[JimW]

Should think a lot of Tory-voting families will have some member or neighbour affected by this. Seems a risky policy in terms of public anger for little real impact on immigration numbers