Mahmood to set out changes to settlement rules for legal migrants
Summary
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce her final decision on changes to settlement rules for legal migrants. Her proposal would extend the standard wait for permanent settlement from five to 10 years, and some lower-paid workers could wait 15 years, but the rules may be revised for current social care workers after criticism of applying them to people already in the UK.Key Facts
- Indefinite leave to remain lets people live, work and study in the UK indefinitely and can be used to apply for British citizenship.
- The Home Office says net migration added 2.6 million people to the UK population from 2021 to 2024.
- The Home Office forecast that about 1.6 million people could qualify to settle in the UK between 2026 and 2030 under current rules.
- More than 200,000 people responded to the consultation on Mahmood’s proposals.
- The Home Office estimated that 196,000 care workers and adult dependants could settle between 2026 and 2030, at a lifetime cost of £9.5 billion to taxpayers.
- The IPPR estimated that skilled workers and their dependants due to settle under current rules would make a net lifetime contribution of about £115 billion through taxes.
- Labour MPs and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner criticized applying the proposed longer waits to migrants already living in the UK.
- Mahmood is expected to give her decision in a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on Monday.
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