The party's leaked draft manifesto pledges to scrap the controversial threshold. Labour would scrap the controversial income threshold that separates families and stops thousands of British citizens bringing their foreign husbands and wives to the UK. The leaked draft version of the party’s manifesto says it does not believe that “family life should be protected only for the wealthy” and that it would replace the threshold with “an obligation to survive without recourse to public funds”. Immigration rules currently require British citizens to earn more than £18,600 before their foreign partner can join them on a spouse visa. Critics say the policy discriminates against working class people on lower incomes. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...t-threshold-visa-immigration-uk-a7729846.html
Nice idea, but of course they can pledge whatever they like. I suppose if it attracts some attention to the matter though...
What precedence? The income threshold was introduced in 2012 and has not been changed despite the Tories' 2015 manifesto commitment to reduce immigration to "tens of thousands".
Precedence such as: 2017/18 : UK Spouse visa from abroad will go up by a £269, Dependent relative by a staggering £574, Indefinite Leave to Remain by £422 and Indefinite Leave to Remain as dependent of Armed Force by £422. And I notice naturalisation has gone up by some two or three hundred quid. So it would come as no surprise if the earnings threshold goes up anytime soon.
Judging from what you've written in another thread here, it would appear that you would support such a measure, so what's your point?
Good for Labour. That is how it should be - no financial threshold but no recourse to public funds. They get my (tactical) vote for that. It's not much of a vote winner, though. Nobody in the country gives a stuff other than those affected.
For which neither he or you have provided any evidence and is therefore pure conjecture and rabble-rousing. I've news for you: the Conservatives are in power right now and could raise the income thresholds right now - or at any other time - quite legally and without consultation or parliamentary scrutiny.
If you recall, Graham, that's how it was in the late '90s and until 2012; but immigration got out of hand. Importantly, do you trust Corbyn's Labour to honour that, or any, manifesto pledge? Given his and his front bench team's flip-flops and inability to master their briefs, I'm not so sure I would.
I voted last time based on a party saying this, and I will vote this time on it. I see no reason not to honour it as it is discrimination against low earning British people. I really don't believe that out of control immigration had anything to do with the earnings of British people wanting to bring their spouses over to live with them.
Your so adversarial and googly challenged There you go 19th May "The manifesto reads: “We will increase the earnings thresholds for people wishing to sponsor migrants for family visas.” But it does not set out a new minimum amount. It makes clear that the move would be an attempt to help the Conservatives reach their widely-ridiculed target of reducing net immigration to the tens of thousands." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ation-foreign-spouses-threshold-a7742791.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39975187
net immigration has nose dived ! simply by not processing settlement visas in the timescale before the transfer to sheffield began.
