{"id":458489,"date":"2026-03-05T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458489\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:20:11","slug":"report-shows-uk-eu-couples-face-arduous-system-post-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458489\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows UK-EU couples face &#8216;arduous&#8217; system post-Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The system causes enormous amounts of stress and pressure on families,&#8221; the professor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Children are separated from parents, families have to sacrifice plans for buying a home and some have to change their plans completely and move abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Couples also face extra costs for visa applications and healthcare surcharges, with some being pushed into debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These extra costs can amount to \u00a312,000 for someone getting indefinite leave to remain over five years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Couples who live outside of the UK can also be prevented from returning to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brexit Couples report was presented to ministers in Parliament this week, calling for changes to the system, including lowering the minimum income requirement (MIR) for British partners and a reduction in visa costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the Migration Advisory Committee, also recommended for the MIR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2lk87l9dvno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be lowered<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The system causes enormous amounts of stress and pressure on families,&#8221; the professor said. &#8220;Children are separated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}