Stark choice under new immigration rules: exile or family breakup

[Arthur Little]

There but for the grace of God, go I ...............

... AND me, Peter.

Have to agree with gWaPito, people are not going to risk the huge application fees if they clearly don't meet the criteria of Income Thresholds.

... that's precisely what the Government is banking on - the fewer direct sponsors who can afford the proposed income levels (since the plan is also to disallow third party support) the fewer the number of applicants.

Any legislation has to be 'compatible' with the terms of the Human Rights Act 1998. If it's incompatible, that legislation can be struck out by the courts. The HRA provides a national remedy to the European Convention on Human Rights, which was signed by the UK eons ago. Previously, if someone wished to assert that their 'human rights' had been infringed, then remedy would have to have been sought through the European Court for Human Rights - so costly as to generally not be worth it.

from davis Khan - immigration associates.

I'd been going to mention the International Human Rights Organisation. But ... BANG goes this theory if, by any chance, it STILL HAS to entail drawn out and costly action involving the ECHR initially.