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Drawing on the authors&#8217; past research into the impact on families of separation imposed by the UK immigration system, the article examines the likely consequences for families of the raft of new restrictions to be introduced by the Conservative government in 2024 to reduce net migration to the UK. These include a doubling of the minimum income requirement for family visas to \u00a338,700. Helena and Katherine describe the increase in the threshold, which will put family visas beyond the reach of over 50% of the UK population as &#8216;crushing for those hoping to reunite their families.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article can be accessed in full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/just-the-rich-can-do-it-our-research-shows-how-immigration-income-requirements-devastate-families-219246\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 5th December Routes coordinator Helena Wray published an article in The Conversation entitled \u2018Just the rich can do it\u2019: our research shows how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1695,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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