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The impacts of the minimum income threshold are many

Reunite Families UK applies for judicial review of policy Last December, the Tories said they would double the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) – a minimum salary that British citizens and settled residents must earn if they want their loved ones to join them in the UK. The government plans to raise the MIR in three stages. The first increase, from £18,600 to £29,000 came into force in April. By spring 2025 it plans to raise the threshold to £38,700. Yet 70% of the UK workforce earns less than this amount, and fewer than 15% of Home Office employees earn more than this salary. Thousands of families have been separated since Theresa May first introduced these rules in 2012. This massive hike will mean that even more families will have to split up, while others will be unable to come back to the UK. Even the current level is a struggle for many people – women in particular – who have been forced into single parenting and now juggle work and childcare while their partners are prevented from joining them in the UK. And the new rules will significantly impact future generations encouraged to travel and live abroad, effectively preventing people from forming relationships with those they meet overseas due to the higher threshold. Reunite Families UK is taking the government to court, standing up for the thousands of couples and families who get in touch every day, expressing their shock and concern that they can’t be with their loved ones in their country of birth or adoption. We must stand up for our right to family life. Help us stop the cruel increase to the Minimum Income Requirement. Let’s keep families united. Details Reunite Families UK is a lived-experience non-profit organisation supporting families who are affected by the UK’s spouse/partner migration policy and navigating the UK spouse visa process, including, in particular, visa applications under Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules. Set up initially as a Facebook group in 2017 by two mums affected by the spousal migration rules to help others also affected, it has since grown into the only non-profit organisation (CIC) that specifically deals with supporting and advocating for people impacted by the policy, with a membership of over 4,500 lived-experience individuals. To sign up to our newsletter, go here https://bit.ly/3Rb3LTN . 

With thanks to London Sync for use of the music track Throughout this weekend, between #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay2024 and #MothersDay, Reunite Families UK [RFUK] celebrates the many 1000’s of inspirational superwomen who are keeping it together whilst having to fight to reunite their families here in the UK. The first challenge our superwomen have to overcome is the impossibility of being with their loved ones. Of having to go through an unfair separation just because they don't or can't earn the required amount to sponsor their partner to come to the UK Another challenge is the need to overcome the financial barriers put in front of binational families. Aside from earning the MIR, they also need to pay extortionate visa and health surcharge fees. A sum which is over £13k for a partner on a 5-year route to settlement #LoveinLimbo They also need the resilience to withstand increasingly unfriendly migration policies that in order to reduce net migration is willing to separate families and loved ones causing untold damages to them and their children. #familiesbelongtogether Our super women have to work 24/7 to: ❗️Provide from them and their children ❗️Find a job that allow them to sponsor their partner to join them here in the UK ❗️Put money aside to save for the extortionate visa fees And continue to be super mums to their children #LoveinLimbo Our #superwomen are often forced to be single-mums and we are in awe of their strength and resilience as they juggle more than anyone should have to deal with the daily impacts the policy is causing them and their children Basically our women have to really be supershero just to be able to obtain and maintain what many of us rightly consider a basic human right: the right to a family life. How you can help these superwomen: Sign the Parliament Petition so that we can reach the 100k signatures and have a proper debate in Parliament to scrutinise the impact of the rules, something sadly missing so far in the changes to the MIR. https://lnkd.in/etHPAdPM Donate and join the fight to defend our human right to a family. https://lnkd.in/eE4x-MFQ

Are you a family affected by the UK's spouse visa rules and your children have been separated from a parent as a result? Would you like to take part in important research work on the mental health impact of the Minimum Income Rules on children? If you'd like more information and/or would like to have the opportunity to have your say please email [email protected]

After nearly 15 years of dedicating my life to living and supporting causes I was passionate about in Tanzania, this became us until just two months ago when the kids and I, after over 4 years of uncertainty and separation living in the U.K as a result of the pandemic, were able to return to Tanzania. The impact the separation had on my husband and I and our kids was immeasurable. We couldn’t have got through that time or returned to Tanzania without the support of family and friends. We’re “one of the lucky ones” but if these new rules do come into effect next spring, as a British citizen I, like 70% of the U.K. population, will be effectively barred from returning to the U.K. with my “foreign” husband and British kids. No matter if it’s because I want to be closer to my U.K. family. No matter how successful our Tanzanian business is (because the MIR can only be met via U.K. employment). No matter what we can contribute to British society. If you see this as the heartless, cruel and farcical attempt that it is, to knock off a mere 60,000 immigrants, splitting up families and traumatising children (including British children - and if you think this is hyperbole then wait for a new report due out soon) out of more than 700,000 then please share widely and support Reunite Families UK and write to your M.P. 🙏🏼