Petition Against UK Spouse Visa law

[Hugh1025]

Can any of the moderators get in contact with me about a petition that I am running. The petition is to fight against the £18,600 minimum earnings that is required before your spouse can join you in the UK. My wife and I are currently separated because of this law. I know that there are thousands of people in my situation on this forum and we all need to stand together to fight against it. If any of the moderators can come back to me and let me know if I will be allowed to post the link for signing the petition. I don't want to post it before getting a go ahead and I can't find any information about it on the forum. Would be a great help to thousands of people if we can get the backing on it.

[CR001]

There have been many petitions already and the topics very quickly become impossible to moderate and keep track of due to certain members persistently turning such topics into chit chat and non value ones.

The supreme court has already upheld the minimum income threshold.

immigration-for-family-members/supreme- ... l#p1457973

[pixelrage09]

This has already been done. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the 18,600 as legal. Pretty much the end of story right there, unfortunately.

[Hugh1025]

Thanks for getting back to me. I know that many have run and been over ruled but I don't believe in giving up, I am separated from my wife and will fight to get her back. The law is a joke. I earn more than enough to support my wife and she is more than capable and skilled enough to support herself so I will continue to fight but I do respect your decision but just to clarify, you are saying that you are not permitting me to post a link to the petition?

[CR001]

No petition links please, we have been inundated with the exact same petitions for a couple of years now.

[secret.simon]

A potential via media; How about the moderators allow the link to be posted and then the thread is locked for discussion? That should take care of any irrelevant chit-chat.

To the OP: You can petition as often as you want, but things are going to get much tougher for non-EEA migrants, including spouses of British families. The more leverage the EU has over the UK in Brexit negotiations, the more protected EEA citizens will be, the more the pressure to reduce non-EEA migration and the tougher it is going to get. I would imagine that given that the Supreme Court has allowed the MIR, it is likely to be hiked rather than reduced.

I noticed in one of your threads you mentioned that your spouse is Australian. If that is correct, does she have a single UK born grandparent to qualify for an Ancestry visa?

[Hugh1025]

Thanks for all the replies. I appreciate it and respect it. She does not have a grandparent that was born in UK. But thanks to everyone. Cheers

[Obie]

Well the labour party clearly is not in favour of the MIR. Mr Corbyn ha's indicated he wishes to scrap it, due to its immense suffering.

With the curgent state of the government, I will not be surprised if we are called to go back to the polls this Autumn or Winter.

Furthermore the European Court of Human Right could well strike it out, we will see.

However to say MIR is here to say, is not right.

[Tamandua]

The ones who don't meet the financial criteria should try and get a new job in order to bring their spouses to the UK. As the other members said, the foreign spouse income limit has been upheld by Supreme Court. No point crying over this.

Article 8 of the ECHR states that the right to a family life is a qualified right. The countries have the right to protect their economy.