Price of Love? £25,700 a year

The home secretary, Theresa May, is expected to confirm that she will introduce a new minimum income requirement for a British "sponsor" without children of up to £25,700 a year.

British citizens with foreign-born partners are to be given the choice of indefinite "exile" in countries or face the breakup of their families if they want to remain in the UK, a  move which will exclude two-thirds of British people – those who have a minimum gross income of under £25,700 a year – from living in the UK as a couple if they marry a non-EU national. An estimated  45% -  60% of the 53,000 family visas currently issued each year could fall foul of the new rules.

Also a stringent English speaking test for foreign-born husbands, wives or partners of UK citizens. So it will irrelevant if the Briton is fluent in their partners mother tongue and converses in that when applying to come to live in Britain.

Ministers have also been considering extending the probationary period for overseas spouses and partners of British citizens from two to five years so the right to abode in the UK would not be granted in the event of divorce within that probationary time. The penalty for falling out of love - deportation.

The new proposed legislation will be introducing an "attachment test" to show that the "combined attachment" of the couple is greater to Britain than any other country. Love it or leave it!

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