Government U Turn: Salary needed to bring family members to the UK

[arista]

[The Home Office has rowed back on plans
to hike the salary needed to bring family
members to the UK to £38,700 next spring.
The increase - from the current level of £18,600 - was
announced earlier this month as part of a plan
to lower legal migration.

But the new threshold will initially be set at
£29,000, with further increases at
unspecified dates thereafter.

Labour said the change showed
"Tory government chaos".

[Shadow home secretary
Yvette Cooper said ministers had failed
to consult properly on the new threshold,
adding: "it's no surprise they are now rowing
back in a rush".]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67794032

[Oliver_W]

£18k isn't exactly high, and if the gov wants high standards? Then it "should" be higher than that. Even ~£39k isn't exactly riches, but £29k is more "fair".

[user104658]

100% the reason it's been reduced to £29k:

NHS Band 5 annual salary will be at just over £29k in 2924 when this comes in. They can't afford to lose the vast amount of NHS staffing from abroad, and suddenly realised that most of them are not on £38k.

[Cherie]

This government are an embarrassment

[bots]

the sensible approach is to raise it slightly and evaluate what effect it has, not whack up the requirement and then go oops