By Rebecca Tester, immigration partner. The political debate over immigration in the UK is entering an interesting phase. Policy changes introduced by the previous government in early 2024, along with further changes under the current Labour government have significantly reduced net migration into the UK, which peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023, but had subsequently fallen to 171,000 by December 2025. We are expecting figures for 2026 to be even lower. Having alrea

The Home Office’s new A Fairer Path to Settlement proposals could leave hundreds of thousands of migrant workers waiting far longer to settle in the UK. Constantine Law's immigration partner Alex Finch speaking to Personnel Today , warns the plans will “require a fundamental re-engineering of the UK immigration system,” creating clear winners and losers. Alex comments: “The focus of the statement is on the contribution of the individual. But that is hard to reconcile with

The government is legislating to remove some of the citizenship rights it granted to Chagossians in 2022. This is illogical and unnecessary, and with the future of the Bill now uncertain, this aspect should be scrapped. This week, the government failed to put forward a committal motion in relation to the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill. The Bill cleared its Second Reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday, but there were concerns that the g