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Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the ten year route to settlement to five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
28 Apr 2025
Answer
2 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the ten year route to settlement to five years.

  2. 28 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders, and we will set out our overall approach to reforming the immigration system in our upcoming white paper.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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