If you are travelling abroad or going abroad to live, beware: don’t fall in love unless you have a solid job. Don’t let chance or luck fool you – you will rue the consequences, my friend. You need an income of at least £18,600 to be allowed to bring your foreign (non-EU) spouse to live in the UK. If you have kids, you’ll need around another £2000 per child.
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Never fall in love overseas
It costs one million eight hundred and sixty
thousand pence
To start your family here
To gain residence
You can marry a foreigner abroad
Nothing could be easier
Just pull on the umbilical cord
Before they want to claim a visa
Never fall in love overseas
No matter how good it feels
Never give your home address
To that good-looking waiter or waitress
Never fall in love overseas
In a world of misunderstanding
You can let yourself go
Trust me it’ll be too demanding
Don’t play the hero
Ok you have fallen
You couldn’t help yourself
Now you’ve got to earn the minimum
Or be left on the shelf
You might be waiting for ever
As you search for the requisite wage
But we have to keep our country
Safe in its cage
We can’t afford this sentiment
We can’t let romance win
It’s what old Churchill would have said
We can’t let your lover in
