UK’s higher-earning immigrants may be driven out by tougher rules, report suggests

Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent
Figures raise questions over ministers’ plans to raise qualifying period for settled status from five years to 10 Higher-earning immigrants are less likely to remain in the UK long-term and could be further deterred from staying by the government’s planned crackdown on settlement rights, analysis has revealed. A report from the Migration Advisory Committee’s , Who Stays, Who Leaves?, follows about 900,000 journeys between 2014 and 2024. Continue reading...