Submitted on Wednesday 14th May 2025
Rejected on Friday 23rd May 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ensure that immigrants on existing visas remain on the 5-year path to ILR.
The UK government plans to extend the wait time for eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) from 5 years to 10 years. Please ensure that immigrants on existing visas remain subject to the original 5-year path to ILR; the terms they accepted, when they paid their visa fees and NHS subcharge.
UK laws must not be retrospective. Immigrants on existing visas have paid substantial sums of money in visa application fees and NHS subcharges, as well as made significant life-changing decisions to migrate here, with the original 5-year path to ILR in mind. If the UK government fails to preserve these terms they agreed to, then this is a retrospective application of the law, which is unfair, exploitative and essentially a rug-pull and cash-grab of people in an already difficult situation.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action:
Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/727360
Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/727372
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