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.

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?

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...

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

🚨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.

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.

esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/... @migrantsorganise.bsky.social @rfuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @evawuk.bsky.social @lawrsuk.bsky.social

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"

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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...

The UK already has some of the harshest family migration rules—and now it’s reportedly looking at Denmark, ranked the worst in the world. How is this fighting the far right, it’s appeasing them. Our families deserve dignity, not scapegoating. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

This joint statement has been signed by over 60 organisations — united in calling for compassion, fairness, and justice. We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽 #FamiliesBelongTogether #RefugeesWelcome #EndHostileEnvironment

This joint statement coordinated by @rfuk.bsky.social and @jcwi-uk.bsky.social has been signed by over 60 organisations. We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽 #FamiliesBelongTogether reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...

The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban. Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵 reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...

It is harrowing to see the Home Office once again preventing families from being safely reunited in the UK. No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...

Really worrying findings from @helenbamber.bsky.social on the suspension of the refugee family reunion route: ➡️ Families pushed towards smugglers ➡️ Children + partners left in danger ➡️ One of the few safe routes to the UK is closing #FamiliesBelongTogether 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

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Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...

Keir Starmer's call for unity rings hollow. Under his leadership, rampant racism has gone unchecked. It's disingenuous to talk about growth & belonging whilst also announcing tougher immigration rules that create a two-tier system and will devastate our economy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This govt can't claim it's committed to international law whilst also saying it wants to 'restrict' protections available to torture survivors & those at risk of torture if deported. It's 1 or the other, either you oppose torture & respect international law, or you don't. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Politics shouldn’t be a game of appeasing the far right. Yet yesterday’s Labour Conference speech by the Home Secretary was another example of policies designed to mirror their rhetoric. reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/rfuk-respond...

Getting excited about Autumn Conference in Bournemouth.. we have organised an important and timely fringe event on Saturday with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @migrantvoice.bsky.social chaired by @carladenyer.bsky.social Come and say hello 👋 migration.greenparty.org.uk/autumn-confe...

£1,035. Per Person. Per year. FOR 10 YEARS. Immigration Health Surcharge + 10-year route to settlement = poverty, anxiety and hardship. Thanks to @rfuk.bsky.social, @ramfel.bsky.social, @gmiau.bsky.social + others for sounding the alarm on this madness 🚨👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ashley* speaks @theguardian.com about ordeal that is the 10-year route, the same route the Government is now proposing to expand to hundreds of thousands of people. The reality is that the UK's immigration system is deeply damaging to people and their children. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Proud to stand with our friends at @praxisprojects.bsky.social @rfuk.bsky.social & @migrantvoice.bsky.social in calling out this govt's foolish & cruel plans to shove more people on the 10 year route to settlement. These routes need capping not expanding. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Proud to stand with @rfuk.bsky.social, @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @ramfel.bsky.social in calling out the "race to the bottom* we see with anti-immigration policies, and the unjust double taxation many migrants face. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Great to see so many MPs at the Debate on the Government's plans to extend the length of the route to settlement. We urge the Government to consider these alternatives: 1️⃣ DO NOT increase the length of the route to settlement: 2️⃣ Scrap the exorbitant visa and health surcharge fees 3️⃣ Scrap the MIR

A coalition of orgs including @rfuk.bsky.social, @migrantvoice.bsky.social, @ramfel.bsky.social, @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @gmiau.bsky.social urges all MPs to participate in the Westminster Hall Debate on 8/9 about gov's plans to extend time needed to reach settlement. Why is this crucial?🧵

On a day when yet again the news agenda will be dominated by yet more harsh rhetoric around people seeking safety or the emptiness of the UK's immigration stats here at RFUK we want instead to focus our attention on what lies behind those immigration figures and the human impacts they hide: 🧵

Loneliness and isolation are common challenges in the modern world, and people navigating the spouse and partner migration rules are especially likely to experience them. Through our research, we spoke to many people who feel lonely, who feel isolated – because they’re apart from friends and family

We know that these summer days MPs are away from Westminster.. so we thought to prepare this thread to remind them 5 simple reasons why they need to put pressure on the Government to: ▶️ reform the family migration system ▶️ reduce the extortionate visa cost ▶️ not increase the route to settlement 🧵

Our briefing on family migration is out! It covers people joining British citizens or settled residents, migration of dependants, and families of refugees. Here are three things to know about dependants 👇 migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

Today we join over 200 orgs to stand in solidarity with those affected by the recent anti-refugee protests, many of whom have already fled unimaginable horrors to try to find safety.⁠ ⁠ Read the letter below 👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who completed the wellbeing survey You told us the visa process is stressful and deeply affects you, with common experiences of anxiety, depression, financial stress, and loneliness. If you’ve felt these, you’re not alone; they are widespread on this journey 🧵

For many couples and families summer is the time when they can celebrate their love together. However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it

A huge achievement @rfuk.bsky.social and proud to have supported this case👏

***Reunite Families UK wins legal costs in case against government*** If you want to live in the UK with your non-Brit partner the British/settled resident must earn a Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) of £29,000. 50% of the workforce don’t earn that. Not even some of the Home Office’s own staff 🧵

When we fall in love all we want is to share our lives with that person no matter what. But for those who found love in places far from home - their chances of sharing a life together in Britain is far more difficult. For some impossible. reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/become-a-fam... "

@rfuk.bsky.social stands in solidarity with @migrantvoice.bsky.social, all migrants and marginalised communities. This is not just about immigration. It’s about who we are as a nation. Choose empathy over fear, welcome over exclusion and solidarity over silence