Overview
- Refugee status would be cut from five years to 30 months, subject to regular reviews with returns required once countries are judged safe.
- People granted asylum would have to wait 20 years before applying for long‑term settlement, replacing the current five‑year route.
- The statutory duty to provide housing and weekly payments would end, with support made discretionary and potentially withheld from those able to work or who offend.
- Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood is set to detail the package in Parliament on Monday after calling it the UK's largest asylum overhaul in decades.
- The move follows record recent asylum applications and polling pressure from Reform UK, as more than 100 charities and the Refugee Council criticize the plans.