Calls to reform family visa rules as Brits face being split up from partners
A British Baba-be-be spoke against British family visa rules and makes you feel like a “second-class citizen” because he is in love with someone who is not from England. 33 -year -old David Todd says he feels “completely helpless” because of the current policy.
TODD invites the government to reform the system and requires particularly abolition or reduction of minimum income requirement (MIR). This controversial threshold dictates the gains that British citizens should show that they should bring non -UK partners, a policy that is currently being examined by ministers.
It coincides with the publication of new reports from charity institutions published on Monday. These studies emphasize the long -term distinction of children from one of the parents and elaborate the “important emotional and psychological damages” given by politics to families.
Mr. Todd hoped to return to England from Germany with his 32 -year -old American wife Claire Todd before waiting for his first children in October.
However, the couple faces the division of Mr. Todd to increase savings of more than 88,500 £ dictated by visa rules to allow Mr. Todd to return to the United Kingdom or to return to the United Kingdom to create sufficient income evidence as a British citizen in the relationship.
Mr. Todd, PA news agency, said: “I was worried about it at night, and I have been awake many times, and how will it all work, because you feel completely helpless.
“It’s as if we’re a second -class citizen because we got married to someone who is in love with someone who is not a British.”
At the beginning of this month, the Migration Advisory Committee (Mac) presented his suggestions by the Minister of Interior to see how a Mir to be determined for family visas that balance economic welfare and family life.
As planned by the previous government, he warned the threshold for the rise to the same level for talented workers.
Talented workers are essential to come to England if they earn £ 38,700 or more compared to £ 29,000, which is mainly required for family visas.
The UK’s current £ 29,000 threshold, determined in 2024, is high compared to other high -income countries reviewed by Mac.
Previously, it was set to £ 18,600 since 2012.
West Midlands, Solihull’den Mr. Todd, the level of the level to £ 38,700, he added that “destructive” will be.
“Even in this Mac report, we don’t know what the government will do, how to react,” the classical music chef said.
“This is a little helpless, stuck in the limo, and desperately trying to connect yourself to this position where you can run yourself only because you want to live with your wife or husband.”
The couple living in Wurzburg, Germany, first moved to the European nation so that MS Todd’s student visa ended in England and seven years ago.
After building “good careers asında as classical musicians on the continent, the couple tried to return to England for a year and wanted to be close to the family as they started.
For Mr. Todd, the government should at least include his salary to make ways easier to prove income and contribute to the spouse’s income threshold.
Enough, his wife’s income, as a self -paying content creator, despite the distant work can not be used to meet the need for salary and “tomorrow can be moved to England,” he said.
Mr Todd said that he wanted to leave his wife and child from his child and his child: “I just come wrong, I don’t go back to my child when I am older, and he said to him: ‘Well, sorry, the reason I am not with you for the first year of your life, because I tried to work to move to the family. ‘
Currently, Taiwan’s wife Amber Moon and his four -year -old daughter Maya and her English father Ed Moon, who lives in Taipei, is applying for a family visa to return to England when Maya reaches school age.
The most difficult thing for PA is that you have to give the “extremely comprehensive” documents, which will mean that if you are wrong, the visa will be rejected to start the process again, and the cost of visa fees is approximately £ 2,000.
Buckinghashire, 36 -year -old 36 -year -old from High Wycombe, said: “We have to dive into every ranks of our savings to do this.”
“Basically you feel unwanted by your country. Especially difficult, from a really personal point of view.”
The journalist also said that it was a loss of money that the taxpayer’s growth and training in the UK, then allowing him and his family to live there: orum I want to contribute to England. ”
Researches reunited, British citizens exiled, increasing the financial pressure and separation of partners often encountered frequently encountered the family visa policy for a long time.
For children who leave one of their parents, charity institutions warned that they can face trauma and distress that changes life.
The report also stressed how the rules discriminated, including British mothers, including British mothers, including difficulty, working class and low -income partners and white colleagues.
Families, England Executive Director Caroline Coombs, the Ministry of Interior “simple and practical changes”, mir to scrape the MIR and expensive legal advice to stop the rules and the application process by simplifying the application process can create significant differences for families, he said.
“These rules have become a love tax. People suffer and want to be heard.”
