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Rightwing factions criticise decision to raise minimum salary to £29,000 in spring, rather than £38,700

PM insists harsh new threshold will happen in early 2025 – by hardliners says he should have ‘stuck to his guns’

The Home Office said the salary threshold would go up incrementally, starting at £29,000

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Rishi Sunak’s government unveiled plans to raise the threshold for people living here to sponsor a family member to move to the UK – the person living in the UK must now earn £38,700, up from £18,600 currently

THE UK Government is facing legal action over its plans to introduce an income threshold for migrants of £38,700.

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

Home Office plans wording ‘update’ but campaigners call for new offence to help address low conviction rate

Amid another panic over high net migration to the UK, the government and new home secretary James Cleverly have proposed several changes to visa rules. The proposals apply to economic migrants, rather than other kinds of migrants such as asylum seekers, and have particular consequences for families.

The Rome trip comes after a woman died in the Channel as a boat sank on Friday morning

One person died Friday and another is in critical condition after a boat carrying more than 60 migrants got into difficulty as it attempted to make the dangerous crossing across the English Channel from France