Family Life For Sale? That's The £29,000 Question
Commercial awareness for regional and high street law, by the people doing it.
Need to know
The minimum income requirement for most partner visas under Appendix FM is now £29,000.
In June 2025, the Migration Advisory Committee reviewed this and considered whether the threshold remains appropriate.
Article 8 of the ECHR (the right to respect for family life) doesn’t mean decisions will be automatically overturned.
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🧠Wilson’s Weekly Wisdom
One thing law quickly teaches you is this: you will not win every time.
Some applications will be rejected. Some interviews will not go your way. And when you eventually qualify, that reality still exists. Some arguments fail. Some cases settle badly. That can be difficult to accept in a profession filled with high achievers who are used to getting things right.
Your current setbacks are preparing you for the reality of practice as the real question is: are you prepared to keep going when those setbacks happen?
A solicitor can do excellent work and still not get the result they hoped for. Law is a long game. You win some, you lose some, and somewhere in the middle you build the resilience that makes a great solicitor.
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