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UK immigration weekly: earned settlement plans, 2025 AIDA report, 'temporary visa concessions', removals and returns data, ARAP judicial review, and practice updates—9 April 2026

Published on: 09 April 2026

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In this issue:

  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content
  • Latest Q&A

Key developments

Future developments—Immigration calendar and Immigration White Paper

Our Immigration calendar highlights the main forthcoming milestones relevant to business immigration advisers. In parallel, our Practice Note: Immigration White Paper 2025—summary, tracker and resources delivers an updated, wide‑angle overview of progress on the May 2025 White Paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, including the ‘Earned settlement’ plans. It distils the principal proposed changes for business immigration practitioners, offers commentary on possible impacts, and follows their roll‑out on a continuing basis. It also provides links to associated resources.

UK immigration control: how it works

Director of British Future examines the earned settlement plans

UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) has issued analysis by Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future, assessing the Labour government’s suggested revisions to settlement rules. The piece reviews the proposed Earned Settlement approach, under which migrants would encounter extended, tiered routes to indefinite leave to remain ranging from three to 15 or more years depending on skill level, with mid‑skill roles...

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