Written Question·Home Office·UIN 53211

Immigration Controls

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 29 May 2025

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

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

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 cit...

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