Quote Originally Posted by London_Manila View Post

26k is on the low side for someone about to bring another person to reside in this country
You really think so, do you?

What if I were to tell you that, as an ordinary OAP my total Annual Income - inclusive of Occupational & State Retirement Pensions, respectively - amounts to just under £16k ... i.e., a full £10,000 lower than the Government's recommended minimum.

Am I to suppose - if you are to be believed - that someone in my financial situation should be debarred from bringing his/her non~European partner to the country where he/she was born and bred?

... regardless of being considered "affluent" enough to continue contributing to HM Inland Revenue coffers.

For the record, my wife is a BSc honours graduate whose degree is worth bugger all in the UK - irrespective of a successful 22-year teaching career in the Philippines. How fair is that, huh?

Yet, despite the fact that neither of us is working, we still manage to live comfortably - WITHOUT the need to rely on public funds.

So think on ...