Man faces deportation because UK wife "not earning enough"

I think when the chips are down re the EU, as with the Scottish vote, such a scare campaign will be mounted that people will be frightened and stick with the status quo.

The article says that Mr Engel's craft making business isn't making enough money.

My feeling is that if the principle is accepted that a person must earn this amount of money - which is unrealistic for Cornwall and other areas of the country - then families in this position may never be in a position to live here.

I think the test should be that there is evidence of an established and genuine relationship.

I think it's unfair that all sorts of dodgy characters can enter and reside in this country because they have made billions from goodness only knows what, but conditions are imposed on British people wishing to live in this country with their spouses.

This is exactly the rule which is keeping DD and her family in Beijing. She is at the moment a full time mum and my SiL a very well respected consultant in the hotel industry. Both would be an asset to GB but 'rules are rules' and at the moment it is impossible for them. I think all we want is for everyone to be treated the same.

This man has the skills. He is a yacht engineer. Very apt for Cornwall, I would have thought.
I thought so too, Djen, however BIL is a marine engineer who used to do a lot of work in Cornwall but there is not so much work there any more.

I agree with your last sentence, Eloethan.

Eloethan, you said I think when the chips are down re the EU, as with the Scottish vote, such a scare campaign will be mounted that people will be frightened and stick with the status quo.

It depends on who is in government by that time. It could be the very opposite.

When my daughter's American boyfriend wanted to come here to live with her 17 years ago she had to provide pages of facts and figures about how she would be able to support him. It cost a fortune faxing stuff backwards and forwards to embassies and even after they were married they had to travel to Croydon every year to prove they were really a couple. That went on until he got British citizenship.

Both my sons' partners came over here to take degrees and stayed, but neither have British citizenship. They do not want to give up their own nationality unless they absolutely have to, although being European, they should not have to. Who knows what might happen in the next five years?
There's only one place now to get a Danish passport. Spanish ones can be obtained in a few places.

Can they get dual citizenship in either of those countries?