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Re the new visa rules (Thanks to James Cleverly, I may never live in the same country as my kids again, 6 December), I’m a UK citizen who married my husband in Turkey last month. I am a new assistant manager at a hospice, earning £23,000 a year, and I have been saving for a spouse visa for my husband to join me in the UK. Now, the new £38,700 salary threshold for the visa has taken away my human right to a family life. It treats us worse than criminals. As per the rules, we don’t claim any benefits, I have a stable home and we would pay the NHS surcharge. We aren’t a burden, we contribute.
To tear legitimate spouses apart is immoral, discriminatory and disgusting. This has to be stopped. It is causing such extreme distress that many families will not survive this cruelty.
Roxanne Randel
Sutton, London
