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UK immigration weekly: earned settlement consultation, ETA enforcement, Budget 2025, sponsor licence compliance, case law on Skilled Worker bail bar, deception and discretion, Article 8 limits, and business migration insights

Published on: 27 November 2025

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In this issue:

  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • Sponsored work
  • Business, investment and non-sponsored work
  • Family routes
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • International
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content
  • Latest Q&A
  • Key developments
  • Future developments—Immigration calendar

Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers.

UK immigration control: how it works

Government consultation on earned settlement reforms

The UK Government has launched a consultation on wide-ranging proposals to reshape the rules for settlement in the UK, replacing them with an ‘earned settlement’ approach. The standard five-year route would be withdrawn, with substantive revisions to eligibility criteria, the qualifying period, and the terms under which migrants could secure indefinite leave to remain. This preliminary overview highlights the principal planned changes. See News Analysis: Government announces consultation for earned settlement reforms.

Home Office to enforce ETA scheme from February 2026

The Home Office has confirmed that the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme will be enforced from 25 February 2026...

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