Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57312

Immigration

Tabled: 4 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Sarah Olney

Liberal DemocratRichmond Park

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

Seema Malhotra
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...

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