Rejected petition Remove the income requirement for spousal and family visa's

I personally due to this law have been kept apart from my wife who is a US citizen one of our biggest allies but due to not being from the EU can not simply walk in and join me 5 years we have been married in April and we have had only 9 months together in person due to this wrongful law!!!

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Since July 2012, changes made to the UK's law on family migration has divided tens of thousands of British families - approximately 18,000 each year.

UK citizens with non-EU spouses have less rights in UK than other Europeans in the UK. Children separated from fathers, husbands from their wives.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/108780

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Date submitted 3 January 2016
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