Government plans to make some migrants wait longer before qualifying for permanent settlement in the UK have been criticised by a House of Lords committee, which said applying the changes retrospectively would be 'manifestly unfair'.
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee said a majority of its members opposed extending the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) for migrants who arrived under different rules. The government has proposed increasing the route to settlement from five years to 10 years for many migrants and is consulting on how the changes would be implemented.
