Change the spouse visa eligibility requirements and application process

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 1,799 signatures in total, with signatories from 514 constituencies. That makes it the 5,277th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 77% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 2% (very low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 58 - Brent Central
• 50 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 17 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 16 - Westminster North
• 15 - Leeds East
• 13 - West Ham
• 13 - Aberdeen South
• 12 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 11 - Manchester, Gorton
• 11 - Gordon
• 11 - Glasgow Central
• 10 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 10 - East Ham
• 9 - Aylesbury
• 9 - Glasgow North
• 9 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 9 - Brent North
• 9 - Newark
• 8 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 8 - Edinburgh West
• 8 - Ilford South
• 8 - Peterborough
• 8 - Camborne and Redruth
• 8 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 8 - Ealing North
• 8 - Leeds Central
• 8 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 8 - Guildford
• 8 - Bedford
• 7 - Cardiff North
• 7 - Harrow West
• 7 - Reading West
• 7 - Aberdeen North
• 7 - Barking
• 7 - Walthamstow
• 7 - Glasgow North West
• 7 - Twickenham
• 7 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 7 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 7 - Hayes and Harlington
• 7 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 7 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 7 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 7 - Bolton South East
• 7 - Batley and Spen
• 6 - Slough
• 6 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 6 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 6 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 6 - Angus
• 6 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 6 - Middlesbrough
• 6 - Hammersmith
• 6 - Hendon
• 6 - Reading East
• 6 - Croydon Central
• 6 - Bradford West
• 6 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 6 - South Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Swansea West
• 6 - Leicester West
• 6 - Glasgow South West
• 6 - Croydon North
• 6 - Blackley and Broughton
• 6 - East Hampshire
• 6 - Daventry
• 6 - Streatham
• 6 - Lincoln
• 6 - Manchester Central
• 6 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Milton Keynes South
• 5 - Edinburgh South
• 5 - Spelthorne
• 5 - Ealing, Southall
• 5 - South Northamptonshire
• 5 - Wycombe
• 5 - West Suffolk
• 5 - Bracknell
• 5 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 5 - Sheffield Central
• 5 - Leicester South
• 5 - Cardiff Central
• 5 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 5 - Lewisham East
• 5 - Mitcham and Morden
• 5 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 5 - Meon Valley
• 5 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 5 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 5 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 5 - Bassetlaw
• 5 - Feltham and Heston
• 5 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 5 - Glasgow South
• 5 - Blackburn
• 5 - Bradford South
• 5 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 5 - Eddisbury
• 5 - Wimbledon
• 5 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 5 - Weston-super-Mare
• 5 - Watford
• 5 - Vauxhall
• 4 - Coventry North East
• 4 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 4 - Harrow East
• 4 - Inverclyde
• 4 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 4 - North East Fife
• 4 - South West Bedfordshire
• 4 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 4 - Great Yarmouth
• 4 - Winchester
• 4 - Stockport
• 4 - Falkirk
• 4 - Dewsbury
• 4 - Nottingham South
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Beaconsfield
• 4 - Manchester, Withington
• 4 - Rochester and Strood
• 4 - Keighley
• 4 - St Albans
• 4 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 4 - Wells
• 4 - Luton North
• 4 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 4 - Nuneaton
• 4 - Belfast South
• 4 - Salford and Eccles
• 4 - Tooting
• 4 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 4 - Colchester
• 4 - Derby South
• 4 - Cambridge
• 4 - York Outer
• 4 - Hexham
• 4 - Mole Valley
• 4 - Banbury
• 4 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 4 - Croydon South
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 4 - Warley
• 4 - Maidenhead
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Forest of Dean
• 4 - South Swindon
• 4 - Chichester
• 4 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 4 - South East Cornwall
• 4 - Bristol South
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 4 - Southampton, Itchen
• 4 - Luton South
• 4 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 4 - Edinburgh East
• 4 - Leicester East
• 3 - Bolton West
• 3 - Wyre and Preston North
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Colne Valley
• 3 - South Shields
• 3 - Workington
• 3 - Southend West
• 3 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 3 - Nottingham East
• 3 - Dundee West
• 3 - Torridge and West Devon
• 3 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 3 - Oxford East
• 3 - Exeter
• 3 - Islwyn
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 3 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 3 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 3 - South West Surrey
• 3 - Orpington
• 3 - Warwick and Leamington
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Bradford East
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Chelmsford
• 3 - Somerton and Frome
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 3 - Derbyshire Dales
• 3 - Romford
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - Battersea
• 3 - Alyn and Deeside
• 3 - Crawley
• 3 - Torbay
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Enfield North
• 3 - Chippenham
• 3 - Mid Worcestershire
• 3 - Putney
• 3 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Epsom and Ewell
• 3 - Gedling
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - Glenrothes
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 3 - Harwich and North Essex
• 3 - Nottingham North
• 3 - Reigate
• 3 - Richmond Park
• 3 - Newport West
• 3 - Rochdale
• 3 - Oldham West and Royton
• 3 - Thirsk and Malton
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Argyll and Bute
• 3 - Midlothian
• 3 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - Livingston
• 3 - Wokingham
• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - North East Somerset
• 3 - The Cotswolds
• 3 - Basingstoke
• 3 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Leeds North East
• 3 - Kensington
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - Leeds West
• 3 - Glasgow East
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Canterbury
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Harborough
• 2 - Beckenham
• 2 - Clwyd South
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Derby North
• 2 - Cardiff West
• 2 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 2 - Lewes
• 2 - St Ives
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - Dundee East
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - North East Derbyshire
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Ilford North
• 2 - Rother Valley
• 2 - Broadland
• 2 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 2 - Easington
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Bristol North West
• 2 - Brigg and Goole
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Stafford
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 2 - Belfast East
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - Mid Sussex
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - Kettering
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 2 - Tottenham
• 2 - Newport East
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 2 - St Austell and Newquay
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - Cannock Chase
• 2 - Blackpool South
• 2 - Rotherham
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Rugby
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - New Forest West
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - Witney
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Northampton North
• 2 - Coventry North West
• 2 - Walsall North
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - Leeds North West
• 2 - Gloucester
• 2 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Bury South
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 2 - Castle Point
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 2 - Edmonton
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Bath
• 2 - Huddersfield
• 2 - Stroud
• 2 - Arundel and South Downs
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 2 - Blaydon
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Cheltenham
• 2 - East Devon
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - The Wrekin
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Moray
• 2 - Halton
• 2 - South West Norfolk
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Upper Bann
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Blyth Valley
• 1 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - South Antrim
• 1 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Weaver Vale
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Selby and Ainsty
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Birkenhead
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 1 - North Tyneside
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - City of Chester
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Hemsworth
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Harlow
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Rushcliffe
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Basildon and Billericay
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Darlington
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - Hastings and Rye
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - North Down

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 441 - London
• 219 - South East
• 215 - Scotland
• 142 - North West
• 130 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 121 - East of England
• 100 - South West
• 99 - East Midlands
• 84 - West Midlands
• 58 - Wales
• 49 - North East
• 14 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,687 - United Kingdom
• 16 - South Africa
• 13 - United Arab Emirates
• 12 - Hong Kong
• 10 - Turkey
• 7 - United States
• 5 - New Zealand
• 4 - Pakistan
• 3 - Australia
• 3 - Jordan
• 3 - Mexico
• 3 - Spain
• 3 - Slovenia
• 2 - Philippines
• 2 - Qatar
• 2 - Lebanon
• 2 - Japan
• 2 - Canada
• 2 - Italy
• 2 - Cyprus
• 2 - Egypt
• 2 - Germany
• 1 - China
• 1 - Taiwan
• 1 - Thailand
• 1 - Czechia
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Algeria
• 1 - Finland
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Bulgaria
• 1 - Iran
• 1 - Cambodia
• 1 - Kenya