The Government has been warned against raising the minimum income threshold for family visas to the same level for skilled ...

Professor Brian Bell warned that care companies, restaurants, shops and hotels could all struggle to recruit enough workers ...

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published its review of the Family Route financial requirements, with a headline ...

The UK's Migration Advisory Committee suggests lowering the minimum income requirement for UK citizens sponsoring partner ...

Last month, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed the largest fall in net migration on record. Around ...

Former Home Secretary James Cleverly banned overseas care workers and foreign students from bringing their family members ...

Pakistan is the largest nationality to use the route applying from outside the country. The committee’s analysis gave some ...

The independent MAC has told the government that the majority of migrants arriving on partner visas will be “fiscally ...

Rules on the minimum income needed for foreign spouses and partners of British citizens and settled residents to live in the ...

In a boost to separated families, the review has now said that an appropriate minimum income requirement (MIR) would be ...

Campaigners have welcomed a much-anticipated review into family visa requirements previously labelled a 'tax on love' by a ...

Ministers cannot justify the high income threshold set for British people to bring a partner to the country on a family visa, according to the government’s migration advisers.