Nigel Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain could put thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK said that he could deport hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants from the UK and seriously tighten the rules for people who want to migrate to the country under new plans announced by Nigel Farage.
The party, which claims that the policy would save more than £ 200 billion, said that when it came to power, immigrants could settle in England and will raise the permission (ILR) to the people who are legally working and open to people who are legally working and living for five years.
The reform claimed that the plans would take back the “boris wave” of the migrants initiated by the former conservative Prime Minister. This means about 800,000 immigrants who came to England under the rules of migration after Brexit, introduced by the Boris Johnson government and will soon be entitled to permanent residence. Mr. Farage claimed that this group would be a big burden on the state ”.
The reform British leader also claimed that policy would save $ 234 billion, a figure with a central report of a policy research with a dispute on numbers. Thinking Staff says that cost estimation should not be used anymore.
Speaking with journalists at a press conference on Monday, Farage said that although he had a heavy political focus on illegal immigration, there was little discussion about legal migration ”.
However, the plans were widely criticized by politicians, campaignists and experts who say that the proposals were “morally wrong ve and that they would“ break down families ”.
What you need to know about plans:
How does he leave to remain uncertain?
The uncertain permission to stay is how most immigrants come from, how they settled in England. It gives them the advantages of permanent life, work and work in the country and access in appropriate places.
It also allows their families to migrate to England under certain conditions.
In most cases, ILR can be applied after five years of life in the UK and after working. Depending on the visa type, the applicant may need to meet specific salary or financial requirements.
For most workers, there will be at least 41,700 £ £ 41,700 this year or the “standard course ratio için for the type of business you will do, which can be higher. After securing ILR, a person can usually apply for British citizenship after 12 months.
In May, the worker promised to impose challenging new restrictions on the ILR, so most of the applicants will have to be in the UK for 10 years before applying and shorten the appropriate list of jobs.
What changes under plans?
In accordance with reform plans, this settled status will be scrapped – even for those who are currently residing in the UK.
Instead, a new visa with much more strict requirements that must be successfully implemented and renewed every five years.
It is reported that the policy will see that the salary threshold to be applied to approximately 60,000 £, and the Median British salary is almost doubled (31.602 £).
Although many of them have lived in England for decades, the estimated 430,000 people would determine their lives. They would be forced to be implemented and they would face deportation if they did not qualify for new rules.
In addition, access to NHS services or benefits will be canceled, as they will see the rights and freedoms they are limited. New visas will require advanced English to participate with strict new limits on partners and family members.
Mr. Yusuf did not share how reform would implement the policy of the current ILR. In August, the party said that the party would form a “British deportation command üzerinden modeled on the controversial migration and customs sanction (ICE). This will be like “Trump Mark Two”, he said Time.
The party previously promised to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and to be amended by the British Rights Law. This will enable the government to make asylum seekers’ unrestricted mass deportation – the plans that are also in question of the alleged economic benefits.
Are plans and numbers collected?
In savings, £ 234 billion will be allegedly allegedly ön throughout the life of the average immigrants .. There is no more malfunction, but the average life in the UK is now 80 years old. In this case, the proposed savings will be less than £ 3 billion (£ 2.9 billion) per year – a much more modest number than the branding of reform.
Even a 50-year-old life expectancy in the UK, alleged savings may be £ 4.7 billion per year-without taking into account the economic benefits of the immigrant labor force.
It is also unclear where these savings come from and how they are calculated. Mr. Yusuf said that approximately £ 9 billion in universal loan was requested by foreign nationals. However, getting rid of ILR does not prevent most foreign universal credit plaintiffs from being appropriate, as the majority will be accepted under the Brexit and still have the right to benefit from Brexit.
As of July 2025, there were 213,666 people who had an uncertain permission to continue to demand universal loans. This constitutes only 2.8 percent of all plaintiffs. This small fraction means that the government has spent about £ 1.7 billion for universal loan for people with indefinite permission this year – even if it is extended to a time schedule of 50 or 80 years, far from £ 234 billion.
And there is nothing to argue that these people will continue to demand universal credit, even if more than 800,000 more people will be given to 800,000 more people from the “Boris Wave”. There is no clear figure in the United Kingdom that how many foreign nationals have left a mark. In other words, as it stops, the evidence behind the reform’s savings of 234 billion pounds is at best dark.
When the reform claims that they could save £ 234 billion for decades for decades, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “The numbers that the reform emerged overnight has already begun to dismantle.”
“This is a difficult challenge, I think everyone can see it, but in fact, simple tricks that are put forward by reform that has no basis and the numbers are disintegrated – this is not the way to cope with a very serious problem, and this workers’ government continues and does it.”
