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

Exclusive: Thousands of families with one British partner and one from abroad will be hit by £38,700 salary requirement

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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.