What we are campaigning for:
Spouse Visa
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The issue:
Despite the international world we increasingly live in, the current system for granting visas and citizenship unjustly penalizes British citizens who marry foreigners while living overseas or who then move overseas.
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The UK government should be obliged to respect the ‘right to family life’ guaranteed to British citizens under ECHR Article 8 by allowing all citizens to enjoy this right in the UK – rather than, as at present, requiring British citizens with foreign spouses to show that there is an ‘insurmountable obstacle’ to their enjoying family life outside the UK.
Indeed, only just recently, the UK Government has substantially increased by almost double the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR), a threshold of how much a person must pay in income tax wanting to bring a spouse with them to live in the United Kingdom.
The policy forces families apart, creating a group of overseas British children commonly known as ‘Skype kids.’
What we say:
We are committed to helping the UK government understand the issues that British citizens face and understand what has been driving government policy in this area and ultimately push for fairer and more sensible processes but also make sure the processes are not open for abuse.
What we are doing:
We have formed a policy group to look at all the details and create radical proposals based on fairness, continue to engage with MPs, talking to them about the problems many pensioners face living on frozen pensions, and connected to other stakeholders around the world campaigning to end this discriminatory legislation and we seek to connect with more.