What is the process for bringing my Thai wife to England for a long-term stay?

@Ronald **********

Previously, the £18k was based on the threshold for a typical couple before they could access benefits. There was a certain rationality to that, ie the government didn't care about your standard of living, just as long as you couldn't access benefits. Now, its likely to increase, over a period, to £38k, a number based on the median salary of a skilled worker. Suddenly the government wants you to live comfortably. The numbskulls didn't even think about pensioners chasing their red wall votes. Or maybe they did. Its not kind of, but completely discriminatory. ECHR Article 8 "right to family life" means a government has no right to interfere in normal family relationships. Except the government does. Interestingly, in Canada, its an absolute right for a spouses to remain together.

@Andy *********

Hi Andy , how are you? and thanks for that information, I think it's to late for me now though, as we have split when I came home to have some medical treatment we haven't spoke for 2 yrs such is the life, but I appreciate your thoughts mate!🙏

@Neil ********

however writing off the whole country for one issue seems a bit much to me. There's a reason many want to come. It is a better place to live.

But I do agree that the naiveness on immigrations in western countries, and the endless rights they get, is reaching unacceptable levels. If these people are refused if they show up at some plane, or just at the border, for obvious reasons, then why flip it all around if they come by sinking boat. If we in all our wisdom determine that they deserve those rights after being 'rescued' from a sinking boat, then why not fly the entire African population to Europe by plane? Then at least they don't drown. We must find ways to give people who almost drown the same rights as those who just knock on the door. And if these rights say they can't come, then it should be the same if they come by a sinking boat.