Submitted on Tuesday 5th December 2023
Rejected on Wednesday 13th December 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Scrap the increase in Minimum Income Requirement for UK spousal visas
Currently a couple wanting to live together in the UK, where one partner is a UK/Irish citizen and the other is not, have to meet a salary threshold of £18,600 per year. This threshold will reportedly increase to £38,700 per year. We ask the Government not to proceed with this proposed increase.
The salary threshold is already causing serious difficulties for families, to the extent that some are separated for months or years, and some can never live together in the UK. Particularly difficulties face women, pensioners, people with disabilities and some ethnic minorities, whose incomes are lower than average and likely to be less than £38,700 per year.
We call on the Government to scrap the proposed increase to the salary threshold, and to move towards removing it completely.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652602
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