Submitted on Saturday 22nd November 2025
Rejected on Monday 22nd December 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Fair and Equal Access to ILR for All Legal Immigrants in the United Kingdom
We ask the Government to immediately confirm that the retention of the 5-year continuous residence requirement for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) for all legal immigrants is a safeguard for the fundamental human right to a stable private and family life, as protected by Article 8 of the ECHR.
Legal immigrants entered the UK under the explicit understanding that the 5-year route to settlement was the established pathway for permanent residence.
Legal immigrants should not face unequal treatment in access to settlement simply because they entered under different visa categories.
This is a moral contract that the Government must honour. Extending the ILR qualifying period to 10 years is a retrospective change that breaks this promise
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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.
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We think these petitions are similar to yours:
Keep the 5-year pathway for all legal immigrants to apply for ILR: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751293
Make a law to protect ILR from abolition and retrospective changes: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/742864
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