Submitted on Thursday 19th February 2026
Rejected on Wednesday 25th March 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Protect existing Skilled Workers from substantively retrospective changes
The Government should guarantee clear transitional (grandfathering) protection for people already on the Skilled Worker route and their families, so they can complete the five-year route to ILR under the rules in force when they entered, without being affected by substantively retrospective changes.
Many Skilled Worker visa holders and their families moved to the UK in good faith under the current five-year rules and have built their lives around them. Extending the route to settlement from five to ten years and imposing much higher salary thresholds detached from labour market realities on people already here would, in substance, be retrospective. This would disrupt lives, undermine legal certainty and fairness, and could stop people from reaching ILR after years of lawful residence.
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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action: "Do not apply ILR qualifying period changes retrospectively to ILR applicants" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751517
You may also be interested in this petition: "Make a law to protect ILR from abolition and retrospective changes" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/742864
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