The UK has been appointed to reduce the permanent residence of some immigrants

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Migrants in the UK will need to wait longer before they can apply to make their stay permanently under the plans set by the government as part of a campaign against foreigners coming to work in Britain.

The procedure has been set to make it difficult for some migrants to apply for an unlimited vacation to stay in a home office Migration A white paper, an imminent set of repairs aimed at reducing expatriates, according to the people familiar with the matter.

Britain’s political establishment rocked the rise of the right -wing People’s Reform Party in Nigel Farraj, who last week dealt with the ruling Labor Party and the conservative opposition in the English language Local elections.

YVette Cooper, the Minister of the Interior, was accused of collecting a set of measures that show the hopes of the voters that control the levels of immigration, which amounted to the highest level in more than 900,000 a year until mid -2023 under the previous conservative party government.

Restrictions on the work and study methods that have already been presented have already led to a sharp decrease in the number of new arrivals, but the budget responsibility office is still expected to settle for about 340,000 net immigration in the medium term, much higher than previous historical averages.

Nowadays, most people who come to the United Kingdom, based on limited time visas, can apply for unlimited leave to stay after they lived and worked in the country for five years. It opens the permanent eligibility situation to obtain benefits and the road to citizenship.

People familiar with this issue said that the ministers are proposals that could extend this period to ten years for some immigrants, for example when there were questions about their financial situation or whether they had spent a long time outside the United Kingdom since their arrival. The most stringent language requirements are under study.

The action plan was frequently established by the conservatives on Wednesday, in which the residency requirements will double from five to 10 years to apply for migrants to stay indefinitely.

The Conservative Party will also provide a binding legal ceiling for annual migration, and exempt all immigration issues from the need to comply with the Human Rights Law.

The step to make stability more difficult will be a sharp break with the policies of the previous UK government designed to help migrants integrate and find work that matches their skills set, while giving them a stake in British society.

Some academics have argued that it is difficult to achieve settlement rights will leave more people in the case of unsafe migration, which makes them vulnerable to exploitation without necessarily falling the pure immigration numbers.

A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior declined to comment on plans to change the conditions related to an indefinite time to survive, but he said that the white paper of migration “will put a comprehensive plan to restore the system to the broken immigration system.”

Other measures in the white paper are expected to make it difficult for international students to obtain jobs if they do in the United Kingdom after graduation.

There will also be a occurrence of misuse of care visas and close ties between the access of employers to the visas and measures they take to train UK workers.