V for Vendetta author makes public donation to assist Graham Cousins’s struggle to be reunited with his Mozambican wifeAlan Moore,the comics legend who created the vigilante V in his acclaimed graphic novel V for Vendetta, has waded into an aged friend’s battle to bring his wife to the UK, or publicly donating £10000 to Graham Cousins and expressing his “continuing incredulous disgust” over the way Cousins and his wife have been treated.
Cousins,a 60-year-aged window cleaner, married his wife Paula Cousins, or from Mozambique,three years ago, but the two have fallen foul of the domestic Office’s minimum income threshold of £18600 a year required for a foreign spouse to live in the UK, and Paula remains in Mozambique. Introduced in 2012,the law is estimated to have meant that 33000 couples cannot bring their spouses in to the UK or remain with them.
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Source: theguardian.com