Submitted on Monday 1st December 2025
Rejected on Friday 9th January 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keeping current 10 year long residency route for students.
Government must keep current format of 10 year long residency route for students.
Students spend thousands of money to complete their bachelor,masters and Phd in UK. Current 10 year long residency route give only option them to settle in this country. But, new earned settlement sachem proposed to scrapp long residency route to abolish which is completely unfair for students.
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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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There is already a petition open on not applying the proposed changes to students who were in the country before 2025, which you can sign:
Exempt students who arrived before July from changes to visa/settlement rules
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/740746
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