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Today's links

'An appeal - please help me rescue my daughter.'

http://cloudhunter.co.uk/post/51553893017/an-appeal-please-help-me-rescue-my-daughter

A very sad story. Cloudy is himself a victim of the £18,600 rule (his ex-partner is in the US, unable to enter the UK; he can't go to the US, and the relationship ended under the stress of a family divided between two continents, with their daughter - a British citizen by birth - staying with their mother in America).

It's unlikely that it would have come to this without the minimum income rule - rules which would make it impossible for around half of British citizens to bring a non-EEA partner into the country.

Effectively, their lives have been made impossible out of sheer viciousness. No matter the complexities of their lives subsequently - and their are many, and at least one party has behaved badly here - it's impossible to envisage the mess that this family finds itself in without the introduction of rules which divide partners, and divide children from their parents.
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An interesting story. From Ghana to Germany to Ireland then moving back with a British spouse, via Surinder Singh.

http://www.ukresident.com/forums/topic/159400-perhaps-complicated-surinder-singh/

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Sussex ramblers warned over aggressive foreign cows.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10471098.Sussex_ramblers_warned_over_aggressive_foreign_cows/

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Why travel long-term? An open letter to loved ones.

http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/13-06/why-travel-long-term-with-kids.html