Rejected petition Over turn Retrospective Changes to Settlement (ILR) Rules for HSMP / Tier 1 Applicants

More details

HSMP/Tier 1 needed migrants to spend 5 years in the UK and be economically active in order to qualify for ILR. They were also required to make the UK their main home. Home requirement and clear criteria for ILR created a reasonable and legitimate expectation that if an immigrant meets the above requirements, they will be eligible for ILR.
On 6th April 2011 Settlement Rules for Tier 1 and HSMP Migrants were amended retrospectively.
1. Tier 1 Applicants are required to score points again in the last year when they apply for Settlement
Applicant needs to be free of unspent convictions (including traffic offence) when applying for Settlement
2. A person could be in a job for 4 and a half years and then loose his job because the economic scenario or get a driving fine and as a result won't be eligible for ILR.
In the past, immigration ministers have consistently opposed the retrospective elements of the changes. Hence, I would urge the government to overturn the retrospective rules.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 3 March 2012
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.