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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

MPs urge Home Secretary to introduce £2,885 fee waiver for bereaved foreign spouses before election

MPs are urging the Home Secretary before the general election to waive a “devastating” £2,885 fee that bereaved foreign spouses would have to pay in order to stay living in the UK.

Stephen Timms and Caroline Lucas are among MPs who wrote to James Cleverly on Tuesday urging him to push through a fee waiver this week for indefinite leave to remain applications made by foreigners, living in the UK on a spouse visa, whose British spouses have died.

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