Written Question·Home Office·UIN 24934

Immigration: Married People

Tabled: 20 January 2025

Answered: 28 January 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were exempted from the spouse visa financial requirements on account of receiving benefits which exempted them in the latest period for which data is available.

Answer

Seema Malhotra

Where an individual is applying on the 5-year partner route, their partner must be in receipt of one or more of the specified disability related benefits in order to be subject to the ‘adequate maintenance test’ rather than the Minimum Income Requirement ...

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