New immigration proposals - Alex Finch comments in Personnel Today

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 reality of international migration, in which it is often families, not individuals, who move countries together. This produces policy dilemmas. A proposed criterion for settlement, after a baseline qualifying period of 10 years, is earning a minimum income to make national insurance contributions. But will that apply to the spouse and children of a high earner who themselves qualifies for settlement after only three years?”

Read the full piece and Alex's further comments here.