UK to cancel the right of refugees to search for permanent residence after 5 years

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British refugees will not be entitled to apply for permanent residence after five years or obtain an automatic right to reunite the family, as Sir Kerr Starmer hardens his immigration policy to study Nigel Faraj’s reform in the United Kingdom.

Before a meeting of the European political community in Copenhagen, the Prime Minister will announce on Thursday that the refugees will face a longer way to permanent residence in the UK and will not be automatically allowed to assemble their families to join them.

“I think that if you want to come to the United Kingdom, you should contribute to our society,” said Starmer.

The Prime Minister said: “The United Kingdom will continue to play its role in welcoming the real refugees who escape persecution,” the Prime Minister said. “But we must also treat clouds that drive dangerous and illegal small boats.”

Officials said the new “basic protection” provided to refugees will not include the family reunification, a right that gave asylum seekers in Britain since 2000.

The Starmer Declaration comes at a time when the work government is seeking to tighten its position on immigration, which has risen to the political agenda, with the creation of a division line between its policies and pledges taken by the right -wing Farajing Party in Farraj.

Reform has increased before the Labor Party in opinion polls, pledged to leave the European Human Rights Conference and abolish the main way of migrants permanently in the United Kingdom, known as the unlimited leave for survival.

Starmer pledged to stay in the European Human Rights Convention, but announced last week a launch Digital ID For all workers in the UK by the end of this parliament as a means of limiting illegal work by foreigners and curbing illegal immigration.

But the policy has already been subjected to special criticisms from senior cabinet members, amid fears that the scheme is half baked and will not go beyond the current initiatives to address irregular immigration.

“The plan they declared is not different from the E-Visa scheme that we already have,” said a minister in the cabinet, referring to the current system that the immigration application uses to prove that they have the right to work.

The minister added that the Starmer team “wanted to issue a major advertisement, so they did so before any of the details were already heated,” noting that there was only “50/50” opportunity to live any plan by the end of this parliament.

Interior Minister Shabana Mahmoud announced at the Labor Conference this week that immigrants to the United Kingdom will have to prove that they are net shareholders in society, and they have never demanded advantages and have a clean criminal record in order to qualify for permanent residency.

Its new policy based on a previous government declaration of an increase from five to 10 years in the virtual period that migrants in Britain should be before they can apply for unlimited leave to survive.

But the ministers have made clear this week that a period of 10 years can be shortened if foreigners can prove that they contribute positively to society, including by paying national insurance and volunteering in society.