Individuals who have moved to Britain since 2020 with a potential path to permanent settlement within five years are now at risk of having to wait another half-decade under Sir Keir Starmer’s migration crackdown.
One of the pillars of the prime minister’s package of reforms, set out on Monday, is a doubling of the default period that migrants must spend living and working in the UK before they can apply to stay indefinitely.
This “settlement” status opens up eligibility for benefits and a path to citizenship, and takes five years for most migrants at present but will in future take up to 10.
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