Hükûmet, Earned Settlement (Kazanılmış Yerleşim) istişare sürecine ilişkin yanıtını yayımladı ve bu gelişmenin ardından çok sayıda soru gündeme gelmeye başladı. Bu yazıda yalnızca manşetlerde yer alan değişiklikleri değil, insanların en çok merak ettiği konuları ele almak istiyorum: Yeni sistemin yürürlüğe girme takvimi, 4 temel ilke, aile bireyleri ve bakmakla yükümlü olunan kişiler (dependants) üzerindeki etkileri, mültecilerin durumu ve geçiş hükümleri kapsamında kimlerin

The government has now published its response to the Earned Settlement consultation, and the questions are pouring in. In this piece I want to go beyond the headline and cover the parts most people are actually worried about: the timeline, the four principles, what happens to families and dependants, where refugees stand, and who is protected by transitional arrangements. First, the timeline What was announced is not law yet. The binding rules will come through the Statement

Naturalisation is a separate legal process from ILR, with its own residence calculation, strict absence limits and a wider good character test. Here is what governs a British citizenship application.

On 2 November 2026 the Government published its final plans for a new "earned settlement" system. If you are on a route to indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the headline is simple: settlement is no longer something you get almost automatically after five years. From now on you earn it, and how long it takes depends on you. Here is what changed, in plain English, with the parts that matter most to you. First, take a breath If you have been refreshing the news and feeling your

Your ILR eligibility is shaped by decisions you make in the first months of your Skilled Worker visa, especially absences and job changes. Here is how the five-year journey to settlement really works.

Most Skilled Worker visa refusals come from avoidable errors in salary, the Certificate of Sponsorship or the documents. Here are the ones that catch people out, and how to prevent them.

The UK Expansion Worker visa lets an established overseas business send a senior employee to set up its first UK presence. Here is who qualifies, the 2026 salary threshold, how long it lasts, and why it does not lead to settlement.

If you have an immigration or asylum application with the Home Office, there is a question worth asking that most applicants never think to: was a machine involved in your decision? In 2026 it became clear that the Home Office is already using artificial intelligence in its casework, and that when its AI-generated summaries were checked, more than one in five failed accuracy review. Right now this is happening in asylum cases. But the bigger question, the one that affects eve

It is one of the most anxious questions we hear. Someone is approaching their ILR or citizenship application, their life is built here, their family is settled, and then a worry surfaces: a conviction from years ago, a caution, an old debt, a mistake they thought was long behind them. Will it cost them everything now? The honest answer is: it depends, and the detail matters enormously. Here is how the Home Office actually looks at your history, and what you can do about it. W

Turkish businesspeople on the ECAA route are again facing long delays and refusals that do not hold up, and the courts identified most of these failings years ago. The problems we see in 2026 are not new. Long waits for settlement decisions, refusals that question the genuineness of a business the Home Office has already accepted several times, and procedural errors that cost people their applications were all raised by the community and by the courts between 2019 and 2023. T

If you are working towards a UK visa or settlement, there is an important shift in the English language rules you need to understand, part of it is already in force, and part of it is still to come. The English language level required for some of the key UK immigration routes is rising from B1 to B2. This guide explains what has already changed, what is coming next, who it affects, and what you should do now, in plain language. First, the Basics: What Do B1 and B2 Mean? The U

If your UK visa has just been granted - or you're getting ready - you'll need a UKVI account to see and prove your immigration status online. The old physical documents (like the biometric residence permit, or BRP) have been replaced by an eVisa: a secure digital record of your status that lives inside your UKVI account. This guide walks you through the whole thing in plain English. It's free, it's done online, and most people finish in about 20 minutes. What is an eVisa (and