UK’s Reform party pledges tougher immigration rules
If Nigel Farage’s populist reform UK Party wins the next election, it will make it difficult to move foreign nationals to England and adapt the system to higher gains with strong English to reduce the number of immigrants.
In accordance with the plans, the reform would scrape the current “indefinitely permit” status that immigrants could demand after five years and change it with a five -year renewable business visa, which would prevent the owners from accessing welfare aid.
“There will be a way for citizenship, but it will have a much more difficult citizenship path than we have now,” Farage said to a media conference on Monday. He said.
Reform has only five deputies in the UK’s 650 powerful British Parliament, but leads to opinion polls, 28 percent of the people will vote for the party, and they have won eight points on the Labor Party.
The next election is expected in 2029.
Migration has become an important political issue in the UK, shadowing concerns about an developing economy after the Covid Pandemi and faced a record number of asylum.
Responding to the threat of reform, the government is trying to make it difficult for immigrants to stay in the country and said that people will start a consultation to allow them to wait 10 years to apply to ILR instead of five years.
The policy of the reform will require that anyone who wants to start the citizenship process will live in England for seven years rather than five.
In accordance with the existing rules, immigrants first apply for citizenship.
Farage said his policy would cancel IRR for those who already have the status and forced them to re -apply for a new working visa.
Those who have already won a certain salary threshold – which is not specified – can remain through citizenship.
In addition to salary requirements, the visa will require applicants to meet a higher English standard.
Farage, between 2026-2030, the status of 800,000 new immigrants expected to be given the status of a change and will prevent the access to the welfare payments, he said.
“Reform welfare will only make the British citizens.” He said.
Until March 2025, England allowed 173,000 people to stay with an increase of 33 percent in the previous year.
Citizenship rules would make England more strict than some other European countries.
