Having recently returned from the International Bar Association Global Immigration Conference, the below news confirms the updates shared by UK lawyers. I will be writing a post on the conference itself soon. The below article confirms that UK Immigration laws are indeed following laws in place in the US already. – Tahmina
Copied from Wall Street Journal, Europe:
BY ALISTAIR MACDONALD
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will announce steps on Monday to make it harder for immigrants to bring their families into Britain, in a further sign of how the U.K. is tightening rules to decrease immigration after more than a decade of increasing numbers.
Measures the government is looking at include increasing the amount of income immigrants must have before family members are allowed to join the immigrants, and looking at ways to make sure that family immigrants are in a genuine relationship with their partners.
The government also will look at ways to criminalize forced marriages.