Immigration statistics and the future of ILR

[jager]

The Home Secretary says "It cannot be right that people coming to fill temporary skills gaps have an open access to permanent settlement. Last year, 62,000 people settled in the UK on that basis. Settling in Britain should be a privilege to be earned, not an automatic add-on to a temporary way in. So we will end the link between temporary and permanent migration."

Nowhere does she define the visa classes corresponding to "temporary migration" and "temporary skills gaps" who need their ILR rights curtailed. But she says that 62,000 got ILR in 2009 on that basis. So in theory it should be possible to find out what she means by looking up the 2009 ILR statistics and finding which routes correspond to 62,000.

According to p. 88 of the statistics

http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1510.pdf

there were 194,780 people granted ILR in 2009, of which 81,185 were employment related. Within these, the 62k corresponds more or less to those granted it on the old WP scheme plus their dependants (62,235). However it excludes those on the PBS, UK ancestry and a few other minor routes.

I can't make sense of it at all. Any comments?

[tina123]

Hi,
This is mainly for those coming on work permit / tier 2. Hsmp/Tier 1 applicats are asked to sign a declaration stating that UK is thier main home and they intend to work and live in the U.K

[Gob00st]

Does this mean Home office will try to shut the connection between Tier1(HSMP) , Tier2(work permit) and ILR?

Any opinion ?

Gob00st

The Home Secretary says "It cannot be right that people coming to fill temporary skills gaps have an open access to permanent settlement. Last year, 62,000 people settled in the UK on that basis. Settling in Britain should be a privilege to be earned, not an automatic add-on to a temporary way in. So we will end the link between temporary and permanent migration."

Nowhere does she define the visa classes corresponding to "temporary migration" and "temporary skills gaps" who need their ILR rights curtailed. But she says that 62,000 got ILR in 2009 on that basis. So in theory it should be possible to find out what she means by looking up the 2009 ILR statistics and finding which routes correspond to 62,000.

According to p. 88 of the statistics

http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1510.pdf

there were 194,780 people granted ILR in 2009, of which 81,185 were employment related. Within these, the 62k corresponds more or less to those granted it on the old WP scheme plus their dependants (62,235). However it excludes those on the PBS, UK ancestry and a few other minor routes.

I can't make sense of it at all. Any comments?