New Suitability Rules under the Immigration Rules – effective 11 November 2025

[mohammad12]

HI
need some information regarding New Suitability Rules as i completed 10 years under private family route and planning to apply ILR this month and perviously entered illegal 15 years ago.

would like to know if ILR effected under new New Suitability Rules.Thanks

[zimba]

Very similar to the old (now replaced) Immigration rules part 9, so a refusal is discretionary if there was an illegal entry.
However, I would not bother much if a breach happened 15 years ago

[Tenuki]

Very similar to the old (now replaced) Immigration rules part 9, so a refusal is discretionary if there was an illegal entry.
However, I would not bother much if a breach happened 15 years ago

Wpuld it be similar for a single parent and child who overstayed fir 7 years and applied before 11th November on pr8vate life. They are very scared now.

[zimba]

Fear of unknown because they do not understand what the rule changes entail.

The old immigration rules part 9 excluded family and private life routes but the new Suitability Rules include them. However under the new rules people who overstayed in the past but later granted visa in the knowledge of those previous breaches are specifically excluded:

SUI 11.4. An applicant will be treated as having breached immigration laws if, aged 18 or over, they:

(a) overstayed their permission, unless an exception in SUI 11.5. or SUI 11.6. applied to that period of overstaying; or
(b) breached a condition attached to their permission, unless entry clearance or further permission has subsequently been granted in the knowledge of the breach; or
(a) were (or still are) an illegal entrant; or
(b) used deception in relation to a previous application (whether or not successfully).