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- Vooruit supports the project of the Minister of Asylum and Migration Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA) to strengthen the rules in terms of family reunification.
- The individual who seeks to join his family in Belgium must have an income required of 110 percent of the guaranteed minimum monthly income, plus 10 percent additional for each family member in addition.
- Migraiecentrum Myria criticizes this requirement as “unrealistic”.
Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Minister of Asylum and Migration (N-VA), managed to obtain the support of Vooruit, his left-wing coalition partner, for her plan aimed at hardening the conditions for family reunification. Vooruit recognizes this policy as a “social policy” and says he is satisfied with the clarifications brought by the minister during parliamentary discussions. The standard reports.
Inquiétudes de Vooruit
If the Vooruit largely soothes its concerns concerning the stricter measures, certain technical-legal questions remain. They expect a legal opinion on these questions. More specifically, Vooruit raises two points of disagreement linked to the family grouping policy of Van Bossuyt. The first point concerns the income required for the individual already residing in Belgium, namely “sufficient means of subsistence, stable and regular”.
Van Bossuyt fixes this threshold at 110 percent of the guaranteed minimum monthly income, with an increase of 10 percent per additional member of the family joining Belgium. In the case of a refugee seeking to join his spouse and two children, this translates into a monthly net income required of 2,745 euros. MIGRATIENTRUM Myria describes this requirement as an unrealistic “.
