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Immigration Controls

Commons · Question 53211 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 29 May 2025

Question

Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, whether the proposed extension of the qualifying period for indefinite

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 29 May 2025

We will reform our settlement and citizenship rules by expanding the Points-Based System and increasing the standard qualifying period for settlement to ten years. Individuals will have the opportunity to reduce the qualifying period to settlement and cit...