Bride-to-be has to cancel summer wedding plans - £62K in Savings Required

[Chris]

Bride-to-be has to cancel summer wedding plans after immigration officers deport her partner in front of her

Anyone heard of this before, having to have £62,000 in savings before they can get married in the UK ?

*Lliwen Roberts had been dreaming of marrying her fiance Gareth MacRae
*Couple secured visas for Mr MacRae, from New Zealand, to come to the UK
*But they had to cancel wedding after he was deported in front of her
*Pair have been left almost 12,000 miles apart and £10,000 out of pocket

A bride-to-be has been forced to cancel her wedding plans after immigration officers deported her partner of six years in front of her.

Lliwen Roberts had been dreaming of marrying her partner Gareth MacRae in a traditional ceremony in front of friends and family since her fiance popped the question in Bali last year.

The couple applied for three sets of visas and spent thousands on creating the perfect day.
But their wedding plans have been left in tatters after Mr MacRae, from New Zealand, was deported in front of his fiance's eyes.

Ms Roberts was forced to look on in horror as her 30-year-old partner was ushered through Manchester Airport 'like a criminal' after the pair had spent over a year filling in paperwork and applying for visas.

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[Ste]

That applies only if the Brit has no income at all...


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[Dogsoldier]

As Ste says, if the applicant and partner do not meet the earnings threshold, that is, she is earning less than £18,600 and their application was based on income plus savings, as seems to be the case, then a calculation is made as to how much in savings they would need to have. She cant have been earning much to have required a savings component of £62k.
There is more to this case than meets the eye. By all accounts he apoears to have travelled to the UK after having all his applications refused so they took a chance knowing what the outcome might be.
No point crying now. The rules are there for all. Silly mare.

[Chris]

Ah, right, much clearer now. 

[SOUTHERN X]

There is more to this case than meets the eye. By all accounts he apoears to have travelled to the UK after having all his applications refused so they took a chance knowing what the outcome might be.
No point crying now. The rules are there for all. Silly mare.

agree
like alot of these social media stories , the reader needs to  dig abit deeper to get the facts

SX

[andrewfi]

There is more to this case than meets the eye. By all accounts he apoears to have travelled to the UK after having all his applications refused so they took a chance knowing what the outcome might be.
No point crying now. The rules are there for all. Silly mare.

agree
like alot [sic] of these social media stories , the reader needs to  dig abit [sic] deeper to get the facts

SX

Sadly that truth applies to other topics that you read about here as well. Transfer that rule and apply it yourself elsewhere and WIN BIG! 

Surprisingly, some very well known and influential organisations derive most of their intelligence from social media and, as you see and correctly note, the reliability is not high.