Question follow-through · 902859

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of raising the minimum income requirement for family visas.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 24 Feb 2025
Answer: 24 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of raising the minimum income requirement for family visas.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Family Immigration Rules, including the MIR, need to balance a respect for family life whilst also ensuring the economic wellbeing of the UK is maintained.Under the previous government net migration reached a record high. We have paused the current MI...

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