Faye Brown – Sky News May 12, 2025
Migrants will have to live in the UK for a decade before they can apply for citizenship under plans to reduce reliance on foreign workers.
The change from five to 10 years will come with exceptions for people who make a “high contribution” to the economy or society, who will able to be fast-tracked for permanent settlement rights.
It comes on top of new English language requirements across every visa route, which will extend to adult dependents for the first time.
The measures will be announced by Sir Keir Starmer today ahead of the Immigration White Paper, which will set out further reforms to bring net migration down.
At a news conference later, the prime minister will say: “This is a clean break from the past and will ensure settlement in this country is a privilege that must be earned, not a right.
“And when people come to our country, they should also commit to integration and to learning our language.
“Lower net migration, higher skills and backing British workers – that is what this White Paper will deliver.”
Net migration – the difference between the number of people immigrating and emigrating to a country – soared when the UK left the EU in January 2020.
It reached 903,000 in the year to June 2023 before falling to 728,000 in mid-2024. But that is still well above its pre-Brexit high of 329,000 in the year up to June 2015.
The government is under pressure to tackle legal migration, as well as illegal immigration, amid Reform UK’s surge in the polls.
However, experts have questioned whether some of the changes announced by Sir Keir today will have much of an impact, at least in the short term.
Currently, migrants have to live in the UK for five years to get indefinite leave to remain, or “settled status” if they are from the EU. They can then use this to apply for British citizenship, usually 12 months after settlement.
There were 162,000 grants of settlement in 2024, up 35% from 2023, and 270,000 grants of citizenship in 2024, up nearly a third on the previous year.
“settlement in this country is a privilege that must be earned, not a right”
Speaking as someone who wouldn’t piss on britain if it was on fire, this is quite humorous.
“And when people come to our country, they should also commit to integration and to learning our language”
Hebrew?
“Lower net migration, higher skills and backing British workers – that is what this White Paper will deliver.”
Nice weasel words. “Net migration”. Drive the british out (or kill them if they’re old and poor with the “euthanasia bill”) then say those “migrants” that took their place don’t count in the “migrant” numbers. As for “backing British workers”, the mind boggles. The no hope service has a stated policy to employ “migrants” ahead of “British workers”, that’s why 50% of the workers are “migrants”, just like 50% of the three biggest cities are immigrant invaders.
“sir” queer starmer, brown boy bum humper, “british” prime faggot, says blah blah blah. Who cares what he says? I don’t suppose anyone thinks it “odd” that he’s pretending to “change” his “stance” because the next jew whores are pretending they would do any different?
If they’re not stopping the boats it’s just noise.
They won’t embrace xenophobia and racism, so they are Commies who will only shuffle papers around, re-arranging deck-chairs on the Titanic
“Migrants will have to live in the UK for a decade before they can apply for citizenship under plans to reduce reliance on foreign workers.”
Translation: “Full steam ahead! The more migrants, the merrier!”
And don’t you just LUV the Orwellian “under plans to reduce RELIANCE on foreign workers.” part… as if the country would fall apart without the “contributions” of rape-gangs, sharia law enforcers, no-go areas, machete-marauders…
I doubt that even a THICK Brit would believe such nonsense… but, then again, you never know!😂
no mention of stopping the stabbings