Legal migrants who arrived in UK from 2021 face long wait for settled status under tough new proposals

Two cardinal ineligible migrants who arrived successful the UK from 2021 indispensable person stayed successful the state for astatine slightest 10 years to beryllium considered for settled status, nether caller proposals enactment guardant by the location secretary.

Earlier this twelvemonth the authorities announced it would treble the qualifying play for migrants hoping to beryllium granted imperishable colony from 5 years to 10 years.

But nether caller changes projected by Shabana Mahmood, which are taxable to consultation, the 2 cardinal radical who arrived successful the UK from 2021 - nether what Labour has dubbed the "Boris wave" - volition present person to hold longer for imperishable settlement.

Other proposals being enactment guardant by Ms Mahmood include:

• New rules that mean migrants tin lone go eligible for benefits and societal lodging if they are granted British citizenship, alternatively than settled status.

• Low-paid workers, specified arsenic the 616,000 radical and their dependents who came connected wellness and societal attraction visas betwixt 2022 and 2024, volition beryllium taxable to a 15-year baseline.

• Changing rules truthful that those reliant connected benefits look a 20-year hold for colony - quadruple the existent play and the longest successful Europe.

Speaking up of a planned connection to MPs this afternoon, Ms Mahmood said: "Migration volition ever beryllium a captious portion of Britain's story. But the standard of arrivals successful caller years has been unprecedented.

"To settee successful this state everlastingly is not a right, but a privilege. And it indispensable beryllium earned."

"I americium replacing a breached migration strategy with 1 that prioritises contribution, integration and respect for the British consciousness of just play."

However, nether the plans, determination volition beryllium easier routes for doctors and nurses successful the NHS arsenic they volition beryllium eligible for colony aft 5 years.

The Home Office said the "brightest and champion of planetary talent" could get their colony "fast-tracked", with precocious earners and entrepreneurs capable to enactment aft conscionable 3 years.

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