{"id":58289,"date":"2024-08-06T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/?p=58289"},"modified":"2024-08-06T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:48:53","slug":"study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Permanent residents and British nationals will no longer need to earn atleast Rs 41.5 lakh annually to bring family members to the UK. This move was first introduced by former prime minister Rishi Sunak to reduce record immigration figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced to the House of Commons that there will be no further increase on the current&nbsp; \u00a329,000 annual income requirement until the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) completes a review on the impact of these hikes on families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-germany-increases-financial-requirements-for-visa-news-2024-08\/\"><strong>Germany Increases Financial Requirements for Visa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to curb migration in December last year, the then prime minister Rishi Sunak led a conservative government had announced that from April this year, the minimum salary or income required by British nationals to sponsor long-term family visas for spouses or parents will rise from GBP 18,600 to GBP 29,000 and then be followed by further increases to GBP 38,700 in line with the minimum income requirement for the skilled worker visa route.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-new-canada-pr-pathway-in-making-for-teer-4-5-occupations-news-2024-08\/\"><strong>New Canada PR Pathway in Making for Teer 4 &amp; 5 Occupations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  width=\"664\"  height=\"451\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa\"  class=\"wp-image-58300 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/cdnbloglearn.leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-8.png\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102129\/image-8.png 664w, https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102129\/image-8-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102129\/image-8-380x258.png 380w, https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102129\/image-8-150x102.png 150w\" ><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-indians-among-top-visa-sponsors\"><span id=\"indians-among-top-visa-sponsors\">Indians Among Top Visa Sponsors<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UK Home Office statistics, Indians made up the second highest cohort under the family visa category in 2023, with 5248 visas following Pakistanis and ahead of Bangladeshis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-continuing-tory-government-s-visa-curbs\"><span id=\"continuing-tory-governments-visa-curbs\">Continuing Tory Government\u2019s Visa Curbs<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Labour government has carried forward many of the previous Tory government\u2019s visa restrictions, including those on overseas students and care workers bringing family dependents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-impact-on-student-dependents\"><span id=\"impact-on-student-dependents\">Impact on Student Dependents<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As per a government press release in May there has been a significant drop in the number of dependents about 80% accompanying students to the UK, with over 26000 fewer student visa applications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more <a href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/category\/news-updates\/visa-and-immigration-news\/\"><strong>visa and immigration news<\/strong><\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/category\/news-updates\/\"> <strong>daily news updates<\/strong><\/a> follow Leverage Edu and start your<a href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/\"> <strong>study abroad<\/strong><\/a> journey today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Permanent residents and British nationals will no longer need to earn atleast Rs 41.5 lakh annually to bring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":58304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-updates","8":"category-visa-and-immigration-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa | Leverage Edu Learn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leverage Edu Learn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-06T06:48:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leverage Edu News Desk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Leverage Edu News Desk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa | Leverage Edu Learn","description":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa","og_description":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa","og_url":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/","og_site_name":"Leverage Edu Learn","article_published_time":"2024-08-06T06:48:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Leverage Edu News Desk","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Leverage Edu News Desk","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/"},"author":{"name":"Leverage Edu News Desk","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/#\/schema\/person\/61eb25aa106652620833104e23efa1c3"},"headline":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa","datePublished":"2024-08-06T06:48:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/"},"wordCount":305,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp","articleSection":["Study Abroad News Updates","Visa and Immigration"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/","url":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/","name":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa | Leverage Edu Learn","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp","datePublished":"2024-08-06T06:48:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/#\/schema\/person\/61eb25aa106652620833104e23efa1c3"},"description":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogassets.leverageedu.com\/media\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/22102136\/Study-Abroad-UK-has-Decreased-Minimum-Income-Rule-for-Family-Visa-1.webp","width":1024,"height":640,"caption":"UK University Offers Scholarships Worth \u20b926 Lakh for Indian Students!"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/study-abroad-uk-has-decreased-minimum-income-rule-for-family-visa-news-2024-08\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Study Abroad: UK has Decreased Minimum Income Rule for Family Visa"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/","name":"Leverage Edu Learn","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/#\/schema\/person\/61eb25aa106652620833104e23efa1c3","name":"Leverage Edu News Desk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a002f84246d1b3acc3e50683d6290b4ad8635ef0ccc78710229d513faca81376?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a002f84246d1b3acc3e50683d6290b4ad8635ef0ccc78710229d513faca81376?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a002f84246d1b3acc3e50683d6290b4ad8635ef0ccc78710229d513faca81376?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Leverage Edu News Desk"},"url":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/author\/leveragenews\/"}]}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverageedu.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}