Question follow-through · 98456

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people living in the UK on family visas will be exempt from the sustained economic contribution requirement under proposed changes to earned settlement.

answeredClaire HannaHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 9 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 11 Dec 2025
Answer: 17 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people living in the UK on family visas will be exempt from the sustained economic contribution requirement under proposed changes to earned settlement.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The new earned settlement model is currently subject to an ongoing public consultation, due to conclude on 12 February 2026. Details of the earned settlement model will be finalised following that consultation.

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