Entry Clearances: Married People

(asked on 30th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her Department's policy on the minimum income requirement for UK citizens with non-EEA partners of using evidence provided by those citizens of their partners' earning potential when making immigration decisions.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 6th December 2016

The earning potential of the non-EEA national partner is no guarantee that they will find work in the UK. Those with an appropriate job offer here can apply under Tier 2 of the Points Based System. Non-EEA national partners coming to the UK under the family route must be capable of being independently supported by their sponsor or by their joint savings or non-employment income.

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