Protect the five-year ILR route for existing Skilled Worker families — 13 signatures. Status: rejected.
Protect the five-year route to full ILR for Skilled Workers and families already here on it when new rules begin. We moved here, paid visa fees and built our children’s future relying on this route. Changing it means extra years, costs and uncertainty. Apply longer waits only to future applicants.
Skilled Workers moved their families and accepted sponsored jobs relying on the five-year settlement route. Many paid substantial visa and health surcharge fees, left established lives, and settled children in UK schools. Extending the route after people have begun it would mean more visa costs and years of uncertainty and sponsor dependence, despite their compliance and contribution. Protecting existing families honours the route they relied on; longer waits can apply to future applicants.
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