The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration used MIPEX for its recent report of the inquiry into new family migration rules.
This inquiry arose out of cross-party concern that the introduction of a new minimum income requirement for those seeking to sponsor a non-EEA partner and any children, and of new rules affecting sponsorship of adult dependents, may have led to family members being unnecessarily and unfairly separated from one another.
“The Committee received some evidence indicating that the income requirement is likely to have long-term social impacts in the UK. The Brussels-based Migration Policy Group reported that “the UK has now set an income threshold that is higher than in all other major Western countries of immigration, [except] oil-rich Norway”. A small number of individual submissions described how UK sponsors had chosen to move overseas in order to live with their non-EEA partner. In a small number of cases seen by an organisation working with ethnic minorities in Scotland, the UK sponsor and non-EEA partner had moved to another country in the European Union in order to benefit from European law on family reunification before potentially returning to the UK in the future.”
Download the full report of the inquiry here, and read our assessment of the new UK rules for family reunion here.
