Report: Experience of the 10 year route to settlement

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A Brighter Futures member joined as a peer- researcher for a project with Praxis for Migrants and Refugees and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU), to illustrate the impacts of the 10-year route to settlement on people’s lives.

“Around 170,000 people are estimated to be on a ‘10-year route to settlement’ - a way for some people with strong ties to the UK to be able to stay here permanently. On this route, individuals face a number of challenges - length of time before being eligible to stay permanently, the high cost of visa fees (around £13,000 over the 10-year period for one adult), the requirement for repeat applications every 2-and-a-half-years, complex applications with few options for legal advice, and restrictions in accessing welfare through the default ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition.”