British woman laments Brexit rules that would stop her Italian husband moving to UK

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No stay at home parents or trophy spouses then. I’m sure that applies to rich people too.

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like there’s a rich person loophole if you have at least £88K in savings.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What?

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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