Question follow-through · 105323
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed £50,270 threshold for eligibility for five year Indefinite Leave to Remain on Skilled Worker visa holders employed in lower wage re
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum · 16 Jan 2026
- Asylum · 16 Jan 2026
- Visas: Applications · 21 Jan 2026
- Migrants: Health Services · 5 Feb 2026
- Migrants: Health Services · 5 Feb 2026
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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
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed £50,270 threshold for eligibility for five year Indefinite Leave to Remain on Skilled Worker visa holders employed in lower wage re
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
The earned settlement model, proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, will raise the standard qualifying period for settlement from five years to ten years.We are proposing a series of tests that will measure a person’s contribution to this country a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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