Home Office

Rule Changes

Wrote and will administer the earned settlement rules

Most foreign workers in Britain will wait 10 years for indefinite leave to remain, up from five. High earners on £125,141 or more can settle in three years, and those on £50,271, plus doctors, nurses and teachers, in five.

Updated 4 days ago

Rule Changes

Holds UK drugs policy; produced the sewage-based consumption estimate

Cocaine was named on more death certificates in England and Wales than heroin or morphine in 2025: 1,233 against 1,210. It is the first time since the Office for National Statistics began recording individual substances in 1993 that cocaine has topped the list.

Updated 6 days ago

Rule Changes

As of September 2026: Laid HC 584 before Parliament on 3 September 2026

A Skilled Worker visa ties a person to one sponsoring employer. Leave that sponsor, and the right to work in the UK disappears. From 8 October 2026, workers formally recognised as victims of modern slavery can leave an abusive sponsor and take any other job for the rest of their visa.

Updated Sep 4