Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Howarth (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 21 February 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 46 members in total.

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SPOUSE VISAS

That this House condemns the Home Office ruling whereby a foreign national with a genuine and subsisting marriage to a British national who needs to regularise their stay in the United Kingdom either must return to their country of origin to apply for a United Kingdom spouse visa, accompanied by their British spouse and British young children, which often has a hostile environment and presents an unacceptable risk, or the foreign spouse must travel alone and face an indefinite separation resulting in a stressful disruption to family life and support for the family; and calls for the Home Office to exercise the granting of discretionary leave to remain in the United Kingdom even when the requirements of the Rules are not met but where there are genuine Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) reasons which make removal inappropriate.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

925 

Session

2006-07

Other sponsors

Jeremy Corbyn

Ed Davey

Andrew George

John Leech

Bob Russell

Subjects

Married people Visas

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk