Immigration Controls: Skilled Workers
Commons · Question 53280 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 23 May 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's plans to extend the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain for skilled workers from 5 to 10 years will be applied to (a) prospective applicants only or (b) retrospec
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 23 May 2025
The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues, including indefinite leave to remain.This expansion of the Point-Based System will increase the standard qualifying period for settlement to ten years...