Scrap the increase in Minimum Income Requirement for UK spousal visas

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Currently a couple wanting to live together in the UK, where one partner is a UK/Irish citizen and the other is not, have to meet a salary threshold of £18,600 per year. This threshold will reportedly increase to £38,700 per year. We ask the Government not to proceed with this proposed increase.

The salary threshold is already causing serious difficulties for families, to the extent that some are separated for months or years, and some can never live together in the UK. Particularly difficulties face women, pensioners, people with disabilities and some ethnic minorities, whose incomes are lower than average and likely to be less than £38,700 per year.

We call on the Government to scrap the proposed increase to the salary threshold, and to move towards removing it completely.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: Don’t increase the income requirement for family visas to £38,700

Timeline

5 Dec 2023	Petition opened for signatures
13 Dec 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Dec 2023

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