Challenging New Family Reunion Rules in the UK

• Immigration Rules affect Africans British, European on daily basis:

This article would answer the many queries presented by our clients that we  have been sending africans to Immigration Services and Solicitors for.

The rules present a massive challenge to African newly married couples and families who are living separately and would like to join their sponsor farther or mother already in the UK. While employment is getting less and less and  living costs are rising for many families, it is even harder and dearer if two parents are living separately. The African Institute supports those who are calling on the UK Government to look again at the new family reunion rules in the UK which some MPs believe as irrational and discriminatory. the are threatening to use both administrative and european courts route.

  

Mr Juma argues that immigration pressures
can lead to health inequalities and families
perform well where both parents are involved
in securing right balance on regular contacts
that  allow security,love, education, income
and other social benefits where two parents
 play a role and create a full and sound child. 

• Primary sponsor: Galloway, George
• Sponsors:
  That this House notes that the new family immigration rules impose a minimum earnings requirement of 18,600, with an additional 3,800 for the first child and 2,400 for each additional child, in respect of partners and children from outside the EU seeking to join their partners and parents resident in the UK; further notes that the sponsoring partner is subject to enforced separation in that she or he is required to work in the UK for at least six months before the application can be made; further notes that the new immigration rules are to be challenged in the Administrative Court in Birmingham from 5 to 8 February 2013; believes that the new immigration rules are irrational and discriminate against British citizens, those settled in the UK and those with refugee or humanitarian protection leave on grounds including gender and race-ethnicity; further believes that the new rules are preventing British and settled families on lower incomes from being reunitedand enjoying family life with their non-EEA family members contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights and other international instruments; and calls on the Government immediately to withdraw that aspect of the new family immigration rules which impose the minimum earnings requirement reverting back to the predecessor rule which adequately ensured that there was no recourse to public funds.