The Netherlands can only place minimum salary demands on people wanting to move to the Netherlands if there are objective reasons to do so, the advocate general at the European court of justice said on Thursday.

At the moment, immigrants can only bring their partners to the Netherlands if they earn at least 120% of the minimum wage, which is currently just over €1,310 a month. According to the Telegraaf, the Netherlands says the salary rule is to stop marriages of convenience.
The advocate general said the regulations must take individual circumstances into account. Therefore there must be evidence of force or a marriage of convenience, the paper said. The court usually adopts the advocate general’s position.
The case has been brought by a Moroccan woman who wants to join her husband in the Netherlands. The couple were married in 1972, the Telegraaf says.