Keep the 5-Year ILR Route as a Legal Duty to Those Who Started It as Promised

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

We ask the Government to keep the current 5-year route to ILR for all Humanitarian Protection holders who have already started it, and to treat this route as a legal duty and a promise that must be honoured without retrospective changes. The route must stay stable to protect trust in the system.

Because thousands of families have made life decisions and long-term plans based on the 5-year ILR route granted by the Home Office. Changing the rules after people have already started the process would be unfair and harmful. Families who followed the law should not be penalised. Stable immigration policy is essential for integration, wellbeing, and trust. Retrospective changes put vulnerable families at risk. Protecting the existing route is the fairest and most responsible approach.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Keep the 5-year pathway for all legal immigrants to apply for ILR
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Timeline

24 Nov 2025	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jan 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jan 2026

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