Rejected petition: Protect existing Skilled Worker visa holders from retrospective ILR changes
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Keep the 5-year ILR route for Skilled Worker visa holders already living in the UK and do not apply new settlement rules retrospectively. Any new rules should apply only to future arrivals. Salary thresholds should also reflect regional pay differences across the UK.
Don’t move the goalposts for those already here.
Skilled workers who came to the UK under a 5-year route should retain that route, with new rules applying only to future arrivals. Skilled Workers should be treated as a separate category.
Salary thresholds do not reflect regional pay differences and discourage salary sacrifice to avoid higher bands.
People also cannot retrospectively change past earnings to meet a £50,270+ threshold, making retrospective rules inherently unfair.
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.
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You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "Protect the five-year ILR route for existing Skilled Workers" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/785621
You may also wish to sign this petition: "Legislate to protect ILR applicants from retrospective changes" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/775267
You could start a new petition calling for the Government to make the Earned Settlement salary thresholds reflect regional pay differences, if that's something you want to see.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.