The latest news on the minimum threshold. £18,600

[Arthur Little]

Tbh, ... all the time I was corresponding with Myrna, I'd been blissfully unware of the complicated bureaucracy entailed in bringing a foreign partner to my home country. ... moreover, I myself knew next to nothing about the visa system ... let alone the myriad of immigration obstacles [even then] we'd have to surmount on our pathway to togetherness.

[stevewool]

Tbh, ... all the time I was corresponding with Myrna, I'd been blissfully unware of the complicated bureaucracy entailed in bringing a foreign partner to my home country. ... moreover, I myself knew next to nothing about the visa system ... let alone the myriad of immigration obstacles [even then] we'd have to surmount on our pathway to togetherness.

I dont think anyone thinks about all the problems and the cost that will happen if you are wanting to bring your partner here to where you call home.
Its wrong in a way what many of us have been through and all the new folk who will be following us.
Yes i did have to go through the visa process, first the fiancee visa, then the marriage , then the FLR then the ILR and after that British citizenship.
Now if i was venturing into all this again i would not bother at my age, the cost and the rewards would not be worth it.
Like i have said if the right person came along i would support her while she was living there and save very hard so we would be together sooner.
The new laws i have no idea about them and i am sure the laws and the cost will increase each year.
But again we are all different in what we are wanting but for all the new people going down this path, think hard its expensive and its a very long process.