• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Basically my point is, in my opinion spouses of citizens should be treated effectively as citizens, and married couples be considered together as a family unit.

    I think it’s a weakness of UK policy that in this situation we consider a married couple more as two independent individuals than as a family unit.

    • therealrjp@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      …but it’s not treating them as two individuals. It’s treating them as a family unit and insisting that the person immigrating to the UK can be supported by their spouse.

      I see your point and in an ideal world, perhaps you’d be right. With a finite amount of resources, however, it’s simply not realistic.