questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the forthcoming changes to earned settlement will preserve eligibility to apply for settlement after five years under Appendix Settlement Protection for people granted five years’ permission to stay as a refugee or person with humanitarian protection as a result of an asylum claim or further submissions made on or before 1 March 2026.
answerText: On 5 March 2026, the Home Office updated the Immigration Rules to reduce the length of refugee and humanitarian protection permission to stay, for adults and accompanied asylum seeking children who claimed asylum from 2 March 2026, from 5 years to 30 mont...
heading: Immigration