Submitted by Luke Alexander James on Friday 21st November 2025
Published on Tuesday 30th December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 30th June 2026
Current Signatures: 438
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Benefits ~ British ~ British Citizenship ~ Fairer ~ Harder ~ Indefinite Leave to Remain ~ migrants ~ Parliament ~ Qualifying ~ remain ~ Remove ~ The British ~ Unfair
Do not increase the time migrants with ILR need to wait to apply for citizenship
We ask the Government and Parliament not to amend the British Nationality Act 1981 to increase the qualifying period for migrants with indefinite leave to remain (ILR) to become eligible to apply for British citizenship.
In its statement titled "A Fairer Pathway to Settlement", the Government announced its intention to remove certain benefits from migrants with indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and increase the baseline qualifying period for many migrants on pathways to ILR. Therefore, we feel that this could also make it harder for migrants to become eligible for citizenship (as described on p. 27 of the statement), and that this is unnecessary and unfair.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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