Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) business as usual and absolutely important.The documents mention the responsibilities around issuing visas - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Certain people coming here are dependants who do not need to come with the primary visa applicant, and - Speech Link
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1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Workers sponsored for health and care visas, or in occupations where going rates are set using national - Speech Link
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1: None threshold for family reunification from £18,600 to £38,700; notes that there were 82,395 family-related visas - Speech Link
2: None of Commons to urge the Government to not implement the increase in the minimum threshold for family visas - Speech Link
3: None This will ensure people only bring dependants to the UK they can support financially and will apply to - Speech Link
4: None From 11 April 2024, the minimum income requirement (MIR) for family visas will increase to £29,000, that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) With the changes to the visa rules for dependants this January, the Home Office has made it harder for - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) If you want to study for a master’s degree overseas, you apply for three or four different visas in different - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) visa rules were changed at the start of the year so that international students could no longer bring dependants - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Ideologically driven change to visas could further exacerbate the recruitment and retention crisis that - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) That is why we have worked with the Home Office on changes to visas. - Speech Link
3: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) next Monday, stopping those from overseas coming to fill skills gaps from bringing their spouse or dependants - Speech Link
4: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) On the question specifically on dependants, I say to her that every care worker who comes here to do - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) However, we have taken actions that are expected to lead to a significant fall in the number of dependants - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) , limiting the dependants coming in as the families of non-PhD or research-based students, changing the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) On students, it is important that the number of dependants coming into the UK should be limited, although - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) further reduce net migration, including but not limited to stopping overseas care workers bringing family dependants - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) seekers stuck in limbo, unable to be processed due to the Prime Minister’s legislative fiasco; 250 visas - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Ukrainian refugees here in the UK will be able to extend their visas. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None further reduce net migration are being implemented, ranging from salary increases for work and family visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) reports remain unpublished, including revelations of visa failures in the care sector, with 275 such visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) to reforming the shortage occupation list, removing the right for overseas care workers to bring dependants - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) welcome that.When it comes to care workers, as I have said on many occasions, the current situation for dependants - Speech Link
3: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) countries have produced evidence about how that route was abused and it is right that we clamp down on dependants - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We think this is an appropriate approach to extending the visas. - Speech Link
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1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We are also today reducing the length of new visas issued under the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme - Speech Link