Sarah Douglas says salary requirement means her husband would be ineligible for family visa to join her and their children
A British woman whose family cannot return to the UK because of Brexit visa rules has said she feels “forgotten and rejected” by the country of her birth.
Sarah Douglas moved to Italy to teach English in 2007 before marrying Matteo Ricci, an Italian software developer, in 2010.
The couple had always planned to settle in the UK, where Douglas wants to be closer to her parents, who are in their 70s.
But under the current, post-Brexit immigration regime, she must earn more than £29,000 and have been working in a job paying that for at least six months in the UK before she can apply for a family visa that would allow her husband to move here, or have £88,500 in cash savings.
