Question follow-through · 68947
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of using the certificate of sponsorship start date to start the qualifying period for care workers on skilled worker visas to apply for indefinite
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of using the certificate of sponsorship start date to start the qualifying period for care workers on skilled worker visas to apply for indefinite
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The requirement to hold a certificate of sponsorship is part of the eligibility criteria of the skilled worker route and does not confer any permission to enter or stay in the UK. An applicant for settlement must show a period of lawful continuous residen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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