UK’s minimum income visa requirement faces high court challenge
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/06/uks-minimum-income-visa-requirement-faces-high-court-challenge?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR25fS_2eKUJKLIstrLnsCjC7zJaoVibbMQDobY5sR4ct4hQBBafzIBuKh8_aem_AaplZ65ExC7MUUVBLB6WbDcE3pjg7y2373vkMYrmJEuDQUM15jY6QbHb7rOO8B-noOLeDIO5j3OK4zfEsrXDBPCM
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Having an income requirement to ensure that people entering the country are able to fully support themselves is common sense policy. It prevents the exploitation of our overwhelmingly generous state from worsening beyond the point where it already is and is a practise adopted by just about every serious country in the world.
Yet, there are endless numbers of these charities whose sole goal seems to be ensuring that immigration remains lower skilled and at completely unsustainable levels. Whether it is blocking the deportation of illegals, bogging down the courts with endless appeals, protesting against the most basic of immigration control… Who the hell is funding these people?
So if immigration comes down, and peoples lives don’t get better, but infact get worse, what will the people blaming it on immigrants do then? Blame it on the migrants that are already here?
Blame it on the migrants we deport or who have left because they don’t feel welcome anymore, “well they came here, it’ll take time to rebuild our “GREAT” nation!”
And then in 50 years, when nothing has improved and only gotten worse because we’ve made people not want to come here, what will they be blaming it on then? “GIVE IT TIME” …
When are we going to collectively rise from our slumber and put the focus on the people that are actually responsible for the state of this country/planet?
If you’re a tax payer earning less than £40,000 PAYE you’re still a net recipient when it comes to the cost of all the public services you use according to the OBR
I was half expecting this to be something to do with Labour. Then I remembered that had said they were going to increase the MIR
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23980252.depressing-labour-agree-hike-overseas-worker-salary-threshold/
It would be an amazing outcome if it becomes illegal for the government to set the country’s visa requirements.
NHS funding has increased continuously under the Tories, the cost of running a NHS is susceptible to external factors and goes up, if that is faster than the economy can grow, bad news, if the state cannot produce enough income to fund it, well that’s what we get. A stagnant economy with many working people not being net contributors and a government deep in a deficit. you can’t run a massive state service with a nation of entry level workers on 20-30k whether or not they want to hear this and vote for their own interest again is something entirely, the people not contributing to the state are happy to vote for more state.
I am assured Labour are the magic cure to all this and will somehow manage to up the tax income for the exchequer and somehow find hundreds of thousands of nurses and doctors from the 700k net migrants we welcome each year (who are paid less than the visa threshold in a lot of cases, what is the turn around time to get a nurse or doctor trained again?)
Losing time and money, labour said that they would keep this policy and might actually go further
A lot of people think it’s a good way to screen out certain ethnic minorities.
Never mind that many working English people marry abroad too and often to ethnic minorities.
It just goes to show it’s a class and economic penalty, not just race.
How many MPs are married to foreigners but it’s ok for them because they make quadruple most of us
Comment section shows that reddit never reads the article.
The challenge is against the £38k salary requirement coming in next year for bringing a foreign spouse.
It’s unrelated to the work visa.
We live in a land where any law over immigration et al. is challenged. Endless gravy train of cash to lawyers. Whjere does the £ come from to pay these people.
Interesting to see how this winds up, because I’m pretty sure a number of countries I’d love to fuck off to have similar rules….
Yikes, these comments.
This isn’t quite the ‘sticking it to the immigrants’ statement that you think it is. This is telling you that as a white working class pleb you are not allowed to marry anyone else but those of your own class and stock. Most tories have foreign spouses, but you are not allowed.
Yes, migration needs to come down, but these spouse visa laws are nothing but the stripping of British rights for an easy headline because those that this policy would impress aren’t bright enough to read the story in the first place.
Some of you really think a British woman that has been living in Italy should be prevented from returning home with her husband until she can secure a job that pays 40k a year first?