{"id":82483,"date":"2025-12-18T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82483"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:27:34","slug":"foreign-spouses-who-come-to-the-uk-are-costing-us-tens-of-billions-damning-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/foreign-spouses-who-come-to-the-uk-are-costing-us-tens-of-billions-damning-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign spouses who come to the UK &#8216;are costing us tens of billions&#8217;, damning report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/17\/23\/104828593-15394135-image-a-58_1766015946657.jpg\" alt=\"New figures in a report from the Government\u00bfs official immigration advisers highlighted the immense cost of immigration to the public purse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foreign spouses brought to live in Britain are costing the taxpayer tens of billions over their lifetimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15394135\/Foreign-spouses-UK-billions-report.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Foreign spouses brought to live in Britain are costing the taxpayer tens of billions over their lifetimes. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wedding.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82484,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82483\/revisions\/82484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}