Britons who have married foreign spouses are experiencing difficulties obtaining permanent residence status for their families when they return from abroad to the UK. These problems have recently come to light, when Britons try to return to the UK from EEA countries, even though they are in genuine partnerships with their legal spouse. This means that some families have to migrate separately whilst waiting for the paperwork to clear. It has resulted in disruption to work and school life and has meant that some families have not been able to return to the UK at all.
This problem has only come to the fore because of Brexit, but formerly it was experienced by some Britons who had married Americans, Moroccans, Thailanders and Indians etc., when the British spouse could not prove that they were exercising EU free movement rights. It is time for the law to be changed to allow Britons who have foreign families to return with them to the UK on the basis of permanent residence. The returning family members should then be given British citizenship. The same should be said for British people who form legal and genuine partnerships with foreigners, within the UK. The genuine and legal spouse and children should then be deemed to be British. This has nearly always been the case until recent Immigration acts.
The British people have long held the view that if someone marries a Briton then they are British too. Close families should not be separated or denied their human right to a family life, this is one of the core rights granted to citizens by membership of the EU, and Brexit should not have affected this. I am not expecting any movement on this soon, given the way that successive Labour and Conservative governments have treated the Windrush generation and their successors.
https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh-immigration-route/
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