Partners

FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENTS: On 4 December 2023, the previous Conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly MP, announced a series of measures with the intention of reducing legal migration to the UK. The measures included, in relation to 'five-year route' Appendix FM applications, the increase of the standard required minimum income threshold from £18,600 to £29,000 for initial applications in Spring 2024. This rise was introduced via changes to the Immigration Rules, from 11 April 2024. There were then to be two additional rises in due course, but the new Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP announced on 30 July 2024 that the Migration Advisory Committee was to be commissioned to review these financial requirements, and any further rises would not proceed until then. For further information, see Practice Note: Immigration calendar.

Under the Immigration Rules, the partner of a person in the following categories may apply to join or remain with them in the UK:

  1. British citizen

  2. settled person

  3. person with refugee leave or under the humanitarian protection provisions in the Immigration Rules where the applicant was not part of the sponsoring partner’s family unit prior

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Lords Committee criticises lack of advance information on immigration policy changes

The House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has criticised the Home Office for failing to provide sufficient information in support of measures set out in its latest Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 977, which sets out significant changes to immigration policy. The Statement tightens the Skilled Worker visa route by removing care workers/senior care workers from the list of occupations eligible to recruit migrant workers form overseas and tightens conditions for granting Skilled Worker visas—affecting around 180 occupations (which could lead to a 40 drop in grants). The Committee highlighted the lack of consultation and the absence of an impact assessment, which it says severely undermines parliamentary scrutiny. It called for the impact assessment to be published before the end of the current summer recess. The Statement also closes two schemes which assisted Afghans who supported UK operations and aims in Afghanistan, including through resettlement. A submission to the Committee argued this would permanently abandon people in need, especially in light of a 2022 data breach recently revealed through the lifting of a superinjunction. The Home Office responded that most eligible applicants had already applied and that 95% of current applications were found ineligible. The report states that the Committee had previously repeatedly requested the Home Office to provide sufficient information when laying new legislation with potentially significant consequences, but ‘despite acknowledging this to be correct practice’ it had failed to do so again. It includes a link to detailed submissions sent to the Committee by the Work Rights Centre, the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and the Home Office.

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