Reunite Families UK
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Reunite Families UK (RFUK) is a lived experience non profit organisation supporting and advocating for people affected by UK spouse migration policy which is one of the harshest in the world
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🚨 Only 🔟 days before the "Earned Settlement" consultation on new rules for settlement (Indefinite Leave to Remain) in the UK — closes on 12 February 2026.
The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
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The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
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Proud to have signed this letter signed by 70+ MPs and tens of NGOs that like us know that as a result of these harsh proposals lives will be impacted and ruined.
We urge the Government to rethink these plans - everybody in our communities deserve to thrive.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We urge the Government to rethink these plans - everybody in our communities deserve to thrive.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Proud to have signed this letter signed by 70+ MPs and tens of NGOs that like us know that as a result of these harsh proposals lives will be impacted and ruined.
We urge the Government to rethink these plans - everybody in our communities deserve to thrive.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We urge the Government to rethink these plans - everybody in our communities deserve to thrive.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 💛 — and we’re centring the voices that are often overlooked: children growing up under the UK spouse/partner visa rules. These impacts were laid bare in the @wearecoram.bsky.social Centre for Impact research commissioned by Reunite Families UK. 🧵
February 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It’s #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 💛 — and we’re centring the voices that are often overlooked: children growing up under the UK spouse/partner visa rules. These impacts were laid bare in the @wearecoram.bsky.social Centre for Impact research commissioned by Reunite Families UK. 🧵
Only 24 hours left for people to fill in the consultation on the "Earned Settlement" proposals.
Join other 130k people and make your voices heard.
Settlement should be a right for everyone not a privilege for few high earners.
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Join other 130k people and make your voices heard.
Settlement should be a right for everyone not a privilege for few high earners.
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Only 24 hours left for people to fill in the consultation on the "Earned Settlement" proposals.
Join other 130k people and make your voices heard.
Settlement should be a right for everyone not a privilege for few high earners.
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Join other 130k people and make your voices heard.
Settlement should be a right for everyone not a privilege for few high earners.
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
It’s #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 💛
Children need safety, stability and love to thrive.
But for many children in migrant families, life is shaped by fear and uncertainty:
Will my parent be allowed to stay?
Will we be separated?
Will we have a home?
A brief 🧵
Children need safety, stability and love to thrive.
But for many children in migrant families, life is shaped by fear and uncertainty:
Will my parent be allowed to stay?
Will we be separated?
Will we have a home?
A brief 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
It’s #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 💛
Children need safety, stability and love to thrive.
But for many children in migrant families, life is shaped by fear and uncertainty:
Will my parent be allowed to stay?
Will we be separated?
Will we have a home?
A brief 🧵
Children need safety, stability and love to thrive.
But for many children in migrant families, life is shaped by fear and uncertainty:
Will my parent be allowed to stay?
Will we be separated?
Will we have a home?
A brief 🧵
According to @ippr.org over 300,000 children will be put on a longer 10-year route to settlement due to the reforms being discussed.
Children and their families must not be placed on routes that have been repeatedly found to cause financial and mental hardship
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Children and their families must not be placed on routes that have been repeatedly found to cause financial and mental hardship
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR
Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
According to @ippr.org over 300,000 children will be put on a longer 10-year route to settlement due to the reforms being discussed.
Children and their families must not be placed on routes that have been repeatedly found to cause financial and mental hardship
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Children and their families must not be placed on routes that have been repeatedly found to cause financial and mental hardship
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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The Govt admits it doesn’t know how many NHS staff will be impacted by settlement changes.
What does that mean for NHS waiting times, care for elderly, and patient safety?
Pushing ahead without considering the impacts on healthcare is a betrayal to us all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
What does that mean for NHS waiting times, care for elderly, and patient safety?
Pushing ahead without considering the impacts on healthcare is a betrayal to us all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Government unsure how many NHS staff will be affected by immigration changes
Labour announced proposed changes to immigration rules last year
www.independent.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The Govt admits it doesn’t know how many NHS staff will be impacted by settlement changes.
What does that mean for NHS waiting times, care for elderly, and patient safety?
Pushing ahead without considering the impacts on healthcare is a betrayal to us all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
What does that mean for NHS waiting times, care for elderly, and patient safety?
Pushing ahead without considering the impacts on healthcare is a betrayal to us all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
🚨 Only 🔟 days before the "Earned Settlement" consultation on new rules for settlement (Indefinite Leave to Remain) in the UK — closes on 12 February 2026.
The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
🧵
The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
🧵
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February 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
🚨 Only 🔟 days before the "Earned Settlement" consultation on new rules for settlement (Indefinite Leave to Remain) in the UK — closes on 12 February 2026.
The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
🧵
The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now !
🧵
Shocking and yet unsurprising that the latest @jrf-uk.bsky.social UK Poverty found that 1 in 2 children in migrant families were in poverty compared to around 1 in 4 other children.
Children are the biggest victims of an extortionate immigration system.
No child should grow up knowing poverty.
Children are the biggest victims of an extortionate immigration system.
No child should grow up knowing poverty.
January 27, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Shocking and yet unsurprising that the latest @jrf-uk.bsky.social UK Poverty found that 1 in 2 children in migrant families were in poverty compared to around 1 in 4 other children.
Children are the biggest victims of an extortionate immigration system.
No child should grow up knowing poverty.
Children are the biggest victims of an extortionate immigration system.
No child should grow up knowing poverty.
Nothing shows the cruelty of the Home Office bureaucracy more than this story: a Palestinian academic was denied reunion with his family in the UK they ruled it wasn’t urgent and that his two children should remain with their mother in a tent in Gaza during war.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent
Bassem Abudagga losing hope after being told wife must go to visa application centre, of which none remain in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Nothing shows the cruelty of the Home Office bureaucracy more than this story: a Palestinian academic was denied reunion with his family in the UK they ruled it wasn’t urgent and that his two children should remain with their mother in a tent in Gaza during war.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As we read the headlines around the Migration Advisory Committee's analysis of the fiscal contribution of joining family members we're deeply concerned by attempts to reduce people’s worth to their fiscal contribution.
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
As we read the headlines around the Migration Advisory Committee's analysis of the fiscal contribution of joining family members we're deeply concerned by attempts to reduce people’s worth to their fiscal contribution.
Today should be a day to celebrate Human Rights our #OurEverydayRights.
Instead, we’re left reflecting on the countless ways those rights are being attacked, undermined and dismissed by our Government, our political class and much of our media.
Instead, we’re left reflecting on the countless ways those rights are being attacked, undermined and dismissed by our Government, our political class and much of our media.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Today should be a day to celebrate Human Rights our #OurEverydayRights.
Instead, we’re left reflecting on the countless ways those rights are being attacked, undermined and dismissed by our Government, our political class and much of our media.
Instead, we’re left reflecting on the countless ways those rights are being attacked, undermined and dismissed by our Government, our political class and much of our media.
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Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
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We have made an animation, to show how the 'No Recourse to Public Funds' immigration condition, has harmed our families:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...
Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
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win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...
Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
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win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
The harmful impact of NRPF
YouTube video by United Impact
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We have made an animation, to show how the 'No Recourse to Public Funds' immigration condition, has harmed our families:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...
Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
✍️✉️
win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...
Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
✍️✉️
win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
The five they haven't done:
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
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🚨The latest Home Office stats show that 5000+ children risked their lives across the Channel last year to reach safety & family here. More than half alone.
This will only get worse as the govt continues its attack on family reunion, one of the last few safe routes to the UK.
This will only get worse as the govt continues its attack on family reunion, one of the last few safe routes to the UK.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🚨The latest Home Office stats show that 5000+ children risked their lives across the Channel last year to reach safety & family here. More than half alone.
This will only get worse as the govt continues its attack on family reunion, one of the last few safe routes to the UK.
This will only get worse as the govt continues its attack on family reunion, one of the last few safe routes to the UK.
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Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
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People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity
Read our statement reiterating our support to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK. We also share responses from the sector about how the government's proposals on the asylum sys...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The "safe and legal routes", the sop to allow Labour MPs to convince themselves that there's a smidgen of morality here, are to cover "a few hundred people"
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The "safe and legal routes", the sop to allow Labour MPs to convince themselves that there's a smidgen of morality here, are to cover "a few hundred people"
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Shabana Mahmood confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday that the new safe and legal routes in the asylum policy statement would be only "in the low hundreds". This is at the same time that refugee family reunion is paused, and will be significantly restricted
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Shabana Mahmood confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday that the new safe and legal routes in the asylum policy statement would be only "in the low hundreds". This is at the same time that refugee family reunion is paused, and will be significantly restricted
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Lord Dubs of Battersea is quite right.
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs
Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lord Dubs of Battersea is quite right.
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We couldn't agree more with what Stephen writes in this column.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We couldn't agree more with what Stephen writes in this column.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
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We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...