Charities condemn proposal to make some refugees wait up to 30 years for settlement – as it happened

Here is the list of “public service” jobs where foreign workers will continue to be able to apply for ILR after five years, as now, instead of having to wait 10 years, which will be the new norm. Anyone earning more than £50,271 will automatically be in this category. But people earning less than that will be included if they are doing one of these jobs.

You will notice that care workers are not on the list.

Under the plans announced last year, care workers were going to be in a special category where they were going to have to wait 15 years for ILR (because of their low income). That idea has been abandoned, and instead they are covered by the new, 10-year norm. (See 4.39pm.)