this country is messed up

Unfortunately those laws were put in place because people were complaining about too much immigration.

Can't have it both ways...
 
Yet if his wife was Romanian ect she could enter free of charge, doesn't need to speak one word of English and claim all benefits. I had the same BS to bring my wife in, even got refused the first time and I earn over £18,600.
 
"When I finally got through to someone and told them I was a combat veteran they said ‘I couldn’t care less.’”

You can just imagine him raging and shouting the whole youtube, I fought to protect you stuff and the guy with a straight face just thinking csb.

A little like this :

 
His service in the military has nothing to do with the situation. He could work in LIDL and it would be the same. Don't see why he harps on about "serving his country"
 
Tosno said:
Yet if his wife was Romanian ect she could enter free of charge, doesn't need to speak one word of English and claim all benefits. I had the same BS to bring my wife in, even got refused the first time and I earn over £18,600.
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Yeah but them are the rules.
 
It's not keeping down immigration at all. The spouse visa system is an absolute joke, if he wasn't a British soldier but an eastern European from a random village he could bring his wife from any country in the world free of charge, no £18,600+ income requirement, no English test, no housing reports, no TB tests, no £1000 visas and on and on.

It's a pity he doesn't "delovop" PTSD and get disability benefits, then he won't have the £18,600 requirement.
 
MooMoo444 said:
You're not putting your life on the line working at the checkout though, are you?
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If you think military personnel should get special treatment then the rules have to change for that to happen.

It's unlikely to happen because where do you draw the line? What about police officers, paramedics, firemen/women? Nurses? Teachers?

It gets to the scale that you may as well not have the rule in the first place. Also rights should really be equal amongst all citizens. That is what the law represents, something all citizens abides by.

Comparing it to European freedom of movement is also pointless. Are you advocating we extend it to the entire world?
 
Tosno said:
It's not keeping down immigration at all. The spouse visa system is an absolute joke, if he wasn't a British soldier but an eastern European from a random village he could bring his wife from any country in the world free of charge, no £18,600+ income requirement, no English test, no housing reports, no TB tests, no £1000 visas and on and on.

It's a pity he doesn't "delovop" PTSD and get disability benefits, then he won't have the £18,600 requirement.
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The problem is that the EU free movement allows in those you describe not the frankly reasonable notion that if you wish a foreign national to live with you, you must demonstrate you can support them first.

The requirement seems rational and sensible - that other law's prevent it being applied fairly to all is the problem.
 
muon said:
If you think military personnel should get special treatment then the rules have to change for that to happen.
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I'm not saying he should get special treatment, I just think it's a bit silly to compare working at Lidl to fighting in hostile territory, and not recognizing country service.
 
Amp34 said:
Unfortunately those laws were put in place because people were complaining about too much immigration.

Can't have it both ways...
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Surely you can apply reasonable logic to allow this case through but not the man who trespassed through the channel tunnel and entered in the UK illegally?

This country is arse backwards when it comes to sensible immigration rules, Nigel Farage has the right idea
 
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