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Immigration

Commons · Question 57312 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Sarah Olney

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with regards to her Department's White Paper on Restoring control over the immigration system, published 12 May, if she will publish further information on how changes to the (a) standard qualifying p

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 17 Jun 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 citi...