"Anybody should have the right to fall in love with who they choose," Polly says.
Plans to more than double the salary a British citizen needs to earn in order to bring a foreign partner to the UK are tearing families apart.
Under new rules announced by Home Secretary James Cleverly this week, the threshold for sponsoring a family visa is set to rise from £18,600 to £38,700 in a bid to cut immigration.
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The prospect of such an increase - to a figure well above the national median average salary of £34,963 - has left affected families "utterly devastated".
A mother of two young children, Polly Deechuson, 31, and her husband Saroch are one of the many couples whose lives have been plunged into uncertainty this week.
She told Sky News she had just moved back to Manchester with their children after the pair met in Thailand and lived there for eight years.
Saroch is currently in the UK on a visitor visa but will have to leave in the coming weeks.
The plan was for him to apply for a family visa once Polly was settled and earning the required £18,600 salary - but now everything is up in the air.
"We don't know what to do at this point. Either we separate our family or we have no choice but to leave the UK again", Polly added.
"It's very hard to find a job when you have two young kids."
Tearfully, she explained how Saroch had told her he just wants his family to be happy and to have a good life - even if that meant them being separated.
"It shouldn't be the government choosing that for me and my family," Polly said.
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Polly argues that raising the salary threshold in such a way is a breach of the human right to a family life.
She also pointed out that if Saroch is unable to come to the UK then she would essentially be a single mother-of-two and thus more likely to need to claim benefits, whereas if Saroch was able to settle in Britain he would be able to work and pay tax.
Caroline Coombs is chief executive of Reunite Families UK, a not-for-profit organisation supporting families navigating the UK spouse visa process.
She says their community of couples and families have been badly affected by the government plans.
"The government repeatedly ignore the sufferings that the policy has already caused at its current threshold and which continues to cause countless unnecessary damage to British citizens and their families across the country," Caroline added.
"The emotions are strong within the community but this has galvanised people into action. Threatening your family life will do that to a person.
"We will use this energy to supercharge this fight for a better and more humane immigration system".