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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth and Michael Goodier

Legal action planned over UK’s ‘cruel’ income threshold visa rules

James Cleverly
The UK home secretary, James Cleverly, said the measure was designed to ‘crack down on those who try to jump the queue and exploit our immigration system’. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty

Multinational families threatened with division or exile by tough new income thresholds for living together in the UK are planning legal action to overturn the “cruel and inhumane” policy.

Thousands of families with one British partner and one born abroad will be hit by the government’s announcement that from next spring, only people earning £38,700 will be allowed to bring family members to join them – up from £18,600. Many may be forced either to live separately or to leave Britain to be together.

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