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Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the formal consultation on proposals to change the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain from 5 years to 10 years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the formal consultation on proposals to change the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain from 5 years to 10 years.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    We will be consulting on the new settlement rules later this year.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed minimum income requirement set out in the Government’s consultation on Indefinite Leave to Remain rules will apply to applicants on the British National (Overseas) visa route.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that any changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain eligibility criteria do not retrospectively disadvantage British National (Overseas) visa holders who arriv

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact on families arriving from Hong Kong under the British National (Overseas) visa route of introducing a minimum income requirement at the Indef

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce new English language requirements for dependants on the British National (Overseas) visa route who were accepted under conditions that did not include such requirements.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's open consultation on Earned settlement, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of applying the proposed tax-contribution requirement to (a) non-w

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that no retrospective eligibility conditions will be applied to existing British National (Overseas) visa holders who have settled in the UK on the basis of the rules or

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Domestic Abuse

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the potential impact of the proposals in the consultation on Earned Settlement on victims of domestic violence before its publication; and what steps she will take to ensur

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Violent and Sex Offender Register

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a publicly searchable register of individuals convicted of sexual offences.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Immigration

20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making applications for Further Leave to Remain on Family and Private Life grounds subject to published service standards.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: EEA Nationals

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the policy paper entitled Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 813, 22 October 2020 on proposals on settlement for indiv

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: EEA Nationals

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to continue the policies set out in the policy paper entitled Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 813, 22 October 2020 in relation to the rights and settleme

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Hong Kong

4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any estimate has been made on the number of British National (Overseas) visa holders who will not meet the new proposed income requirements due to being in full-time education within the three