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Post by patman post on Apr 11, 2024 15:13:16 GMT
The Evening Standard reports:
Postal workers and ambulance staff. Undertakers and finance officers. Lab technicians and chefs.
These are just a handful of the occupations that, on average, will not earn British citizens enough money to live in their own country with the person they love, if that person is from abroad.
From today, Britons will need to earn at least £29,000 a year, up from £18,600, to sponsor a spouse. That minimum threshold is set to rise to £34,500 later this year, and then again to £38,700 in early 2025. Such a figure would mean the average insurance underwriter, interior designer and school inspector would not qualify. Indeed, 70 per cent of all UK’s employed adult population would be unable to sponsor their husband or wife.
The Home Secretary has delivered on his promise to transform the UK’s immigration system, cut unsustainable and unfair levels of migration, and ensure those arriving here do not burden the taxpayer.
Although it won't keep foreigners out, wouldn't it be better to reduce living costs to more reasonable levels for both citizens and immigrants...?
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Post by Dogburger on Apr 11, 2024 17:03:41 GMT
Its not living costs though is it . Its a level that goes above the benefits threshold which is fair enough . The spouse can of course come to the UK if they have a job offer are a needed profession ect . It shouldn't be too hard to sort out for people who genuinely want to live in the UK and contribute . It does of course stop those who just want to come here and claim benefits
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Post by Ripley on Apr 11, 2024 19:42:41 GMT
I fail to understand why UK citizens have to jump through hoops to bring in foreign spouses, when other foreigners appear able to bypass the same restrictions.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 11, 2024 20:04:09 GMT
Its not living costs though is it . Its a level that goes above the benefits threshold which is fair enough . The spouse can of course come to the UK if they have a job offer are a needed profession ect . It shouldn't be too hard to sort out for people who genuinely want to live in the UK and contribute . It does of course stop those who just want to come here and claim benefits I fail to see why, in spite of British bigamy laws, some people in this country are legally allowed to claim benefits for up to four wives. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 11, 2024 20:35:29 GMT
Its not living costs though is it . Its a level that goes above the benefits threshold which is fair enough . The spouse can of course come to the UK if they have a job offer are a needed profession ect . It shouldn't be too hard to sort out for people who genuinely want to live in the UK and contribute . It does of course stop those who just want to come here and claim benefits What we don't want is millions from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Africa and the Middle East. What we do want is people we get on with and don't take the piss, like for example the Japanese are very well behaved and only those who really like the country will want to live here. I think we should make concessions for our close European neighbours like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Germans. |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 11, 2024 20:52:16 GMT
Its not living costs though is it . Its a level that goes above the benefits threshold which is fair enough . The spouse can of course come to the UK if they have a job offer are a needed profession ect . It shouldn't be too hard to sort out for people who genuinely want to live in the UK and contribute . It does of course stop those who just want to come here and claim benefits What we don't want is millions from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Africa and the Middle East. What we do want is people we get on with and don't take the piss, like for example the Japanese are very well behaved and only those who really like the country will want to live here. I think we should make concessions for our close European neighbours like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Germans. I may be wrong, but I think that most countries do have immigration quotas that favour some countries over others, don't they? I just think that citizens ought to have a right to bring in foreign born spouses as long as they are law abiding and have marketable skills. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Apr 12, 2024 8:39:56 GMT
Selecting immigrants by country of origin has been illegal in most western countries for fifty years or so. The US abolished national quotas in 1965 and Australia was one of the last to submit when it revoked the White Australia policy in 1975.
At the time we were told there was nothing to be concerned, as Edward Kennedy explained in the Senate:
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Yeah, right.
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Post by Dogburger on Apr 12, 2024 9:11:13 GMT
Its not living costs though is it . Its a level that goes above the benefits threshold which is fair enough . The spouse can of course come to the UK if they have a job offer are a needed profession ect . It shouldn't be too hard to sort out for people who genuinely want to live in the UK and contribute . It does of course stop those who just want to come here and claim benefits What we don't want is millions from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Africa and the Middle East. What we do want is people we get on with and don't take the piss, like for example the Japanese are very well behaved and only those who really like the country will want to live here. I think we should make concessions for our close European neighbours like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Germans. I can see the sense in that but the bottom line is that any immigrant should be able to take care of themselves without state help |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 12, 2024 9:21:03 GMT
What we don't want is millions from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Africa and the Middle East. What we do want is people we get on with and don't take the piss, like for example the Japanese are very well behaved and only those who really like the country will want to live here. I think we should make concessions for our close European neighbours like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Germans. I may be wrong, but I think that most countries do have immigration quotas that favour some countries over others, don't they? I just think that citizens ought to have a right to bring in foreign born spouses as long as they are law abiding and have marketable skills. I'm a bit biased. You see my Maltese woman is selling her place in Sliema and would like to buy a house in the UK. At one time she lived in London and went to a school in Essex and her father worked for the Brits as an army surgeon. Half her family live in the UK and half in Malta, but due to all these regs now I don't know whether she can do that, and the other thing is the bureaucracy it would create at a time when you have to sell one place at the right price, buy another at the right place and get all the paperwork done simultaneously. She can't just move job very easily as well, which creates just one more constraint factor. I mean her family has many connections to the UK, like one of her relatives was a professor of English at Oxford, so I would say her family have done a fair bit to help this country and she is hardly likely to cause any trouble. At the same time I don't want millions of skanky Indians in this country as the nation is highly backward and dishonest and has nothing in common with our culture, vis-a-vis my Maltese woman who is a Catholic, which we can relate to given we were all Catholic at one time. Our nation's problem is it is ruled by woke ideology, not practicality. |
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