Settlement, or 'indefinite leave to remain', is granted to immigrants in the UK after five years of residency.

The plans would throw the lives of the estimated 430,000 people holding ILR into uncertainty, despite many having lived in the UK for decades. They would be forced to reapply and would face ...

Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search ...

Labour has vowed to strengthen the requirements for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK, in an apparent response to Reform’s pledge to scrap the policy entirely. Sir Keir Starmer called Nigel ...

Reform UK has vowed to axe the right of migrants to qualify for permanent settlement in Britain after five years if it wins the next election. The status, known as indefinite leave to remain (ILR), ...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants legally staying in the UK will be deported if Reform takes over power, the party has vowed. Leader Nigel Farage has announced Reform would scrap indefinite leave to ...

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced proposed reforms that will make indefinite leave to remain tougher to acquire. Promising she will be a “tough Labour Home Secretary”, Mahmood spoke at the ...