abhisheknitt wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:48 am
Thanks for your reply. So there is no way for a spouse to join their non-EU spouse with pre-settled status in the UK, apart from say, skilled worker visa? I mean even those on work-visas can bring their spouse to the UK. And even students in postgraduate courses can too. So why are non-EU citizens on pre-settled status who have been being given the right to live and work freely in the UK kept from family reunion? Have there been any other discussions on this topic (on this forum or in the general public discourse)?
Not all visas allow their holder to sponsor their spouses. Most people on the 10 year FLR-FP route under the UK Immigration Rules can't sponsor their spouses until after they get ILR.
And even under the old EEA Regulations, under EU law, non-EEA dependents of EEA citizens could not sponsor their spouses directly/based on their own dependent right to reside in the UK. They could only be sponsored as family members of the original EEA citizen and had to meet all the requirements (such as financial dependency) of that relationship. And people living in the UK on retained right of residence (such as non-EEA citizens who had divorced their EEA citizen spouse) could not sponsor their subsequent spouses until they acquired PR under the EEA Regulations.
Re family reunion, that is not really a thing in UK immigration law. Even British citizens don't have a right to family reunion if they can't meet the requirements of the UK Immigration Rules. See
this post in a thread about a British citizen who is having challenges sponsoring their spouse to the UK.
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