Hundreds of thousands of migrants across the UK woke up to significant news on 23 June 2026. The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee published a landmark report — Settlement, Citizenship and Integration — calling on the Government to abandon its plans to extend the standard ILR qualifying period from five years to ten years.
If you are on a Skilled Worker visa, a family visa, or any other route to settlement, this report matters. The Lords have delivered a powerful intervention that could reshape the UK’s entire earned settlement framework before it ever becomes law.
Here is a plain-English breakdown of everything the report says, who it affects, and what you should be doing right now.
