New route for highly skilled migrants
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Route to settlement for Refugees
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New route to citizenship for refugees in Britain
UKBA – The UK Border Agency has announced that refugees and migrants with humanitarian protection in the UK will be allowed to apply for settlement and British citizenship under the current rules if their initial five-year permission to stay here will end between August 2010 and the date when the ‘earned citizenship’ system comes into force (scheduled for July 2011).
If you are granted refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK, we initially give you permission to stay here (also known as ‘limited leave to remain’) for five years. Under the current rules, you can apply for permission to settle here permanently (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’) when your initial permission to stay ends. When you are given indefinite leave to remain, we say that you are ‘free of immigration time restrictions’. If you have been free of immigration time restrictions for one year, and you meet certain other requirements, you can apply for British citizenship. The Leave to remain and Can I be naturalised as a British citizen? sections of this website contain more information.
The UK government is now changing the way that migrants progress to British citizenship. We expect that the new system of ‘earned citizenship’, which includes a stage of ‘probationary citizenship’, will come into force in July 2011.
