07/11/2011
Under the latest proposed Immigration Rules changes, the Home Office plan to abolish a rule that gives foreign workers the right to live permanently in Britain after working here for five years, according to a report in the Daily Mail this week.
Under the latest proposed Immigration Rules changes, the Home Office plan to abolish a rule that gives foreign workers the right to live permanently in Britain after working here for five years, according to a report in the Daily Mail this week.
Critics on the right point out that during the previous Labour Government’s last full year in power, 203,790 immigrants were granted British Citizenship.
It was the highest level since records began in 1962 and meant that more than 1.5million foreign nationals became British citizens under Labour.
To be fair to the previous government, the immigration system has for many years offered a ‘route to permanent residence’ (Indefinite Leave to Remain/ILR) and citizenship which meant that as long as somebody worked or lived here for four or five years and kept out of trouble, they would allowed to settle here permanently.
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