Question follow-through · 52969
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether proposals of increasing the indefinite leave to remain qualifying period will apply only to new visa applicants.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether proposals of increasing the indefinite leave to remain qualifying period will apply only to new visa applicants.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year and will provide further details at that stage.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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