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Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced that the UK government will delay its plan to increase the family visa income requirement from £29,000 to £38,700 (approximately ₦80 million).
Originally slated to take effect in 2025, this policy was introduced earlier this year by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as part of efforts to manage record immigration levels.
The new administration has decided to postpone the proposed increase until a comprehensive review of the family visa policy is conducted by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).
Until this review is complete, the existing threshold of £29,000 will remain unchanged.
Cooper has confirmed that no further policy adjustments will occur until the independent review is finalized.
The government has tasked the MAC with evaluating the impact of restricting migrant workers from bringing family members to the UK and the implications of raising the income thresholds.
Under Cooper’s leadership, the new government plans to reevaluate its approach to legal migration, aiming to improve the skills of the domestic workforce before relying on foreign labor.
Cooper criticized the recent surge in legal migration, highlighting it as a failure to address labor market shortages. Non-EU long-term migration increased from 277,000 in the year ending December 2022 to 423,000 in the year ending December 2023.
“This is why we are setting out a different approach – one that links migration policy and visa controls to skills and labor market policies – so immigration is not used as an alternative to training or tackling workforce problems here at home,” Cooper stated.
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