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Foreign spouses could be told to leave UK under plans to cut legal migration (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Basically my point is, in my opinion spouses of citizens should be treated effectively as citizens, and married couples be considered together as a family unit.

I think it's a weakness of UK policy that in this situation we consider a married couple more as two independent individuals than as a family unit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    …but it’s not treating them as two individuals. It’s treating them as a family unit and insisting that the person immigrating to the UK can be supported by their spouse.

    I see your point and in an ideal world, perhaps you’d be right. With a finite amount of resources, however, it’s simply not realistic.

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