UK to double wait for permanent residency, with exemptions for care workers
- Under the new rules, most foreign workers will have to wait 10 years to settle in the UK, but higher earners can qualify sooner.
- The United Kingdom has revised its immigration rules, doubling the time most foreign workers must wait to qualify for permanent residency to 10 years and making refugees who arrive on “small boats” wait as long as 30 years.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, speaking in Parliament on Monday, said hundreds of thousands of care workers will be exempt from the hardline rules, offering a concession amid political outcry within the governing Labour Party.
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- Under the new rules, most foreign workers will have to wait 10 years to settle in the UK, but higher earners can qualify sooner.
- The United Kingdom has revised its immigration rules, doubling the time most foreign workers must wait to qualify for permanent residency to 10 years and making refugees who arrive on “small boats” wait as long as 30 years.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, speaking in Parliament on Monday, said hundreds of thousands of care workers will be exempt from the hardline rules, offering a concession amid political outcry within the governing Labour Party.
Sources: Al Jazeera