To think the spouse visa income increase is protecting a lot of people from being married abroad

[Libertyy]

I have multiple friends whose parents are now keen at the idea of them marrying in the UK and not abroad in their ancestral homelands. A couple of my cousins are now able to persuade their parents to reject proposals from family members and other people from abroad as it’s almost impossible to bring anyone here. However I do realise it’s hard for those who are already in love with a foreign national spouse of their choice but I do believe it’s protecting a lot of people. My only worry now would be the families who are putting their children under extreme pressure to get into careers where the starting salary is 36k upwards

I know a couple of people who now plan to leave the uk to join their partner abroad. All degree educated (as are their partners). It's causing an awful lot of upset in a lot of families. such an inhuman policy pulling so many families apart.

Interesting take on the topic. The law generally expects people who are marrying to be adult and independent, but the cultural and family pressures can be hard to escape.

i met my wife whilst working overseas, I didn’t earn above the proposed threshold for 5 years. The people who can do this are old men who buy Thai brides etc. it’s just very wrong. I do think there should be some threshold that covers enough for a couple to live on, but both can contribute and this is way to high.

I don’t like the practice of bringing a distant (or not so distant) cousin who grew up and was educated in a different culture over for an arranged marriage and if that is harder to do and reduced then great. But it’s awful
for the decent love marriages if these blocks are being put up.

It's genuinely a good thing that people have more choice in who they can marry. Only somehow I doubt that was the main reasoning behind setting the threshold at such a high level.

To me it feels more like a last ditch attempt to get some votes at the next general election (either by having put this policy in place or for Sunak's replacement to abandon it to gain favour).

Does anyone know if there is a petition against this change? I'd sign it if there was.

I have a friend due to get married in April, his fiancée is from Trinidad and is trying to get a job in the UK, she is a french teacher. He doesn't earn the new salary and won't do in his profession so he now needs to go there instead. It's madness.