Stark choice under new immigration rules: exile or family breakup

[joebloggs]

I guess that intention doesn't necessarily translate into practice. My wife intended to work but for one reason or another has not been able to.

yes but there will be people who put they didn't want to work but in fact got a job

its interesting to see from the table the 2 groups with the highest % of sponsors is
10,000 - 20,000 at 51%, yet the gov could set the minimum income to near £26k.

[lastlid]

yes but there will be people who put they didn't want to work but in fact got a job

its interesting to see from the table the 2 groups with the highest % of sponsors is
10,000 - 20,000 at 51%, yet the gov could set the minimum income to near £26k.

Yes. It just looks like the government is trying to make it impossible for all but a few.

[dontpushme]

Well, the latest net immigration data (immigration minus emigration) apparently shows there were twice the number of immigrants than the government had hoped for. This looks like a drastic culling.

[Arthur Little]

Yes. It just looks like the government is trying to make it impossible for all but a few.

... that's precisely the point I'd been trying to make last night - in my middle paragraph of #48 of this thread.

[gWaPito]

yes but there will be people who put they didn't want to work but in fact got a job

its interesting to see from the table the 2 groups with the highest % of sponsors is
10,000 - 20,000 at 51%, yet the gov could set the minimum income to near £26k.

The figure was set at that amount because apparently thats when these benefits kick in.

Its just unfortunate the majority of the applicants annual salaries fall below that figure.

Although, it was interesting to see who the majority of applicants are.

[dontpushme]

it was interesting to see who the majority of applicants are.

This reminds me of some stereotypes about the people who look for Filipina/Russian/Thai partners. I'm not saying anything specific, but suffice to say it deals with socio-economic classes, and those figures seem to prove the stereotype true. I wonder what other factors the government took into consideration before making the decision to maybe add a base salary requirement. It can't all have come from looking at just the welfare and salary figures.

[lastlid]

The figure was set at that amount because apparently thats when these benefits kick in.

Its just unfortunate the majority of the applicants annual salaries fall below that figure.

Although, it was interesting to see who the majority of applicants are.

It isnt that it is the less well off that tend to want to sponsor a spouse or fiance applicant. There is no reason for that distribution except that it reflects the natural gaussian distribution of income.

To me there is something wrong with the fact that such a high portion of the working population is effectively eliminated from sponsoring a spouse or fiance visa. The government know what they are doing here. Putting up the shutters.