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If you are UK Born and marry a Non-EU Partner, these Rules apply to you;
But under rules introduced in 2012, British citizens who want to bring a foreign spouse to the UK must earn ?18,600 a year and a further ?3,800 - a total of ?22,400 - if the couple have a child.
A man faces deportation from the UK after a court ruled his British wife's salary was not high enough.
Michael Engel, from South Africa, said the "bizarre" immigration system rules were "attacking British citizens".
Mr Engel, a 31-year-old yacht engineer living in Cornwall, said he and wife Natalie plan to go back to South Africa with 18-month-old daughter Nyana.
A Home Office spokesman said the rules were designed to stop foreign spouses becoming reliant on UK taxpayers.
Mrs Engel's craft-making business made ?19,786 in 2014 which was deemed not enough by the tribunal panel, which met on 3 December.
She said the decision made her feel like her family was being "kicked out" of the country.
She said: "I'm gobsmacked, lost for words, angry and deflated. I'm not so proud to be British right now."
But Judge Michael Wilson, who heard the appeal, said UK taxpayers "should not be expected to have to financially support the appellant in the event of him not obtaining work".
The couple are now awaiting a deportation date.
Mr Engel said: "We did everything in our power to tick all the boxes.
"They are just attacking the wrong people - they are attacking British citizens."
But under rules introduced in 2012, British citizens who want to bring a foreign spouse to the UK must earn ?18,600 a year and a further ?3,800 - a total of ?22,400 - if the couple have a child.
A man faces deportation from the UK after a court ruled his British wife's salary was not high enough.
Michael Engel, from South Africa, said the "bizarre" immigration system rules were "attacking British citizens".
Mr Engel, a 31-year-old yacht engineer living in Cornwall, said he and wife Natalie plan to go back to South Africa with 18-month-old daughter Nyana.
A Home Office spokesman said the rules were designed to stop foreign spouses becoming reliant on UK taxpayers.
Mrs Engel's craft-making business made ?19,786 in 2014 which was deemed not enough by the tribunal panel, which met on 3 December.
She said the decision made her feel like her family was being "kicked out" of the country.
She said: "I'm gobsmacked, lost for words, angry and deflated. I'm not so proud to be British right now."
But Judge Michael Wilson, who heard the appeal, said UK taxpayers "should not be expected to have to financially support the appellant in the event of him not obtaining work".
The couple are now awaiting a deportation date.
Mr Engel said: "We did everything in our power to tick all the boxes.
"They are just attacking the wrong people - they are attacking British citizens."
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Meanwhile unskilled Somalians flock in by the thousand.
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they be pirates and can build a boat tho
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is this a UKIP policy
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The average wage in Cornwall was £17200 in 2013.
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No its not UKIP policy, it is the opposite. They believe and rightly so that we are over zealous with Commonwealth immigration in order to overcompensate for the EU everybody come on in policy. This means an Indian doctor, an Australian Pharmacist or a physiotherapist from New Zealand can and indeed have been deported. Making room for those Romanian guys who came here last New Years Day. One now sleeps rough and the other was convicted in Romania of assault and drug dealing. With Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia all wanting a piece of the action by 2020 this situation will only get worse.
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what about an unemployed South African?
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Depends on their skills and whether they can fund themselves surely?
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her company should just give her a pay rise.
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Meanwhile all the EU Citizens in Great Britain who were Not Born in Great Britain can Earn £10K a year and Claim Benefits/Credits for the Relatives/Children in THEIR Homeland,
No wonder this Nation is F000ked. |
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just make access to benefits contribution based then it is not discriminatory, used to be that way I think. But that doesn't whip up anti immigrant sentiment
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What has always confused me is those chaps that killed Lee Rigby and their right to be in the uk ?
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i think if you get in your 99% safe , as long as you get on the island your safe these days , but they wouldnt let al fayed stay
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The problem Britain has is not those claiming benefits, they do less damage to the economy than those in work, ask why are the wages solow, why will the family need state help?
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It is in fact the successful hard working, immigrant in low paid jobs that is driving down wages and living standards and job security, not the less succesfull who cannot find a job...so this policy is misguided.
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Sadly that is the monster that labour left the country with, mr Brown thought it would be a good idea to have an open door policy and cheap labour with gold plated welfare system.
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An old established country like britain can only maintain high levels of immigrarion if it invents and manufactures new products.
People dont seem to have noticed that there have been no new inventions for at least 40 years. |
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we can handle immigration, but not 8m in 20 years.
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more people come in and more work paces close , 900k sanctioned off jobseekers allowance in last year , they say less people out of work now than ever , they just count who they want.
its 100% immigration driving down the wages , i got a job in a factory a few month ago lasted about a week , it was full of immigrants and we didnt even need to show any proof of address , ni number or anything as the photocopier was BROKEN  |
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and this factory makes food we all eat , cadburys , nestle etc
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Lefties and nation haters love mass immigration.
I have difficulty distinguishing between the two these days. |
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lib dems and tories in , be as well just letting labour in also and have 3 them in
this way they cant shift the blame , they only switch about so we can keep blaming 1 or the other instead of them all |
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they are all the same.
Lib dems feel pity on any human being and would let anyone in, even murderers. Labour hate british history, will do anything for a vote and will let anyone in. Tory only interested in price of nannies and property prices, will let nearly everyone in. |
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scottish labour wanted to stay the union , then the leader leaves the next month as she says they pay second fiddle and no one down england cares
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play*
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What the headline story doesn't mention is the blokes on low incomes whose non-UK wives are deported.
Then again, if you're on say 15k full-time and your bride is from Bangkok or Angeles City here on a visa, you're not going to the press to exclaim how bad it is for your family life that she can no longer stay. Certain embarrassing questions will be asked as to how you met, do you read the "latino brides for lonely brits" adverts in the back of the AutoTrader etc |
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If they demand a Couple need £18,900 min to live in the UK for one year, is the Dole money going up?,
is it F000k |