| Heading: |
Immigration Controls: Skilled Workers |
| Question ID: |
1804232 |
| UIN: |
53280 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5078 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Pippa Heylings
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| Asking Member handle: |
pippaheylings
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@pippaheylings
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's plans to extend the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain for skilled workers from 5 to 10 years will be applied to (a) prospective applicants only or (b) retrospec |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-23 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4253 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Seema Malhotra
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| Answering Member handle: |
SeemaMalhotra1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SeemaMalhotra1
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues, including indefinite leave to remain.This expansion of the Point-Based System will increase the standard qualifying period for settlement to ten years... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |