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Average salaries and minimum income requirements in order to obtain a spousal visa

A graphical comparison across seven countries - the USA, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the UK.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Source : http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.ca/2012/06/tory-family-migration-racist-classist.html

Thanks to Toni ( http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/toni )  for pointing this out.

Read on ... : http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/press-releases/women-young-people-and-non-londoners-are-most-affected-changes-family-migration-polic

These changes will mean that, of British citizens in employment:

    47% will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    58% of people aged between 20 and 30 will not qualify to bring in a family member compared to 35-45% of people aged between 30 and 60.
    61% of women and 32% of men will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    48% of people in Scotland will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    51% of people in Wales will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    46% of English residents will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    29% of Londoners will not qualify to bring in a family member.
    The areas of England with the lowest eligibility are Mersyside, where 56% of people will not be eligible, North West England (53%) and Yorkshire and Humberside (52%).

Can't buy me love :
http://www.mipex.eu/blog/cant-buy-me-love 

With less than £18,600, a British citizen or non-EU UK resident could more easily reunite with their spouse in nearly every other major country of immigration in the world—except their own. This briefing used the most recent government and academic sources to calculate estimates of the income levels for sponsors to reunite with their spouse or partner (for EU countries, the amount reflects the requirements for non-EU sponsors/spouses). The UK has now set an income threshold that is higher than in all other major Western countries of immigration, besides oil-rich Norway.