Protect the 5-year ILR route for migrants already on it before May 2025 — 6 signatures. Status: rejected.
Earned Settlement moves most migrants to a 10-year route to ILR. Care workers who arrived before the May 2025 White Paper keep 5 years, but skilled workers, partners and others who also arrived before it do not. We ask for the same transitional protection for everyone already on a 5-year route.
The Government says the May 2025 White Paper is a fair cut-off because people arriving after it knew the rules would change. By that logic, no one already on a 5-year route could have known. Many of us are months from ILR, have paid visa fees and the Immigration Health Surcharge, and built homes and careers here in good faith. We accept the stricter tests: B2 English, no criminality, no debt. Extending the qualifying period mid-way is retrospective and damages trust in the UK.
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