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Mahmood waters down care worker settlement rules after cabinet backlash
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has revised plans to make migrant workers wait longer for permanent UK settlement, exempting most care workers from the longest waits.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has revised her immigration settlement plans following opposition from cabinet ministers and Labour backbenchers. Under the new rules announced on Monday, most care workers earning at least £25,000 a year will be able to apply for indefinite leave to remain after five years, rather than the originally proposed 15 years. The standard waiting period for other migrants will double from five to ten years. However, refugees who arrived by small boat will face waits of 20 to 30 years. The changes come after Housing Secretary Angela Rayner and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh publicly criticised the original proposals as unfair to workers recruited during the pandemic. The Conservative opposition claims the changes will cost taxpayers £10 billion.
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