Unfair UK immigration points system is breaking up families claim SNP

The points-based system used by UK immigration is breaking up families according to the Scottish National Party. The SNP has spoken out and asked for changes to the system in which they claim inconsistencies are suffered by certain job types and annual income variances.

The SNP’s calls for change follow the recent case of Thomas Legendre, the US novelist and playwright, who does not meet immigration requirements under the points system which was brought in earlier this year. Legendre has been living in Edinburgh for the past eight years with his wife and two children. He was granted residency under the Fresh Talent initiative and has published several works during his time in the U.K. Now Legendre faces the dilemma of being evicted from the U.K because he did not make the stipulated £32,000 which is what the government has deemed he needs to earn in the 15 months prior to application to support himself and his family. The writer is now being deported but oddly his family can remain, leading the SNP to query legislation that can result in such a situation.

Several MP’s in Scotland have decried the system whereby residents must earn their status, claiming that writers who are paid irregularly should not have to suffer for their art. Rather than improve the country it seems that stringent legislation can actually leave the U.K short on real talent. The SNP has suggested that revision is required to take into account families along with jobs which have fluctuating salaries.