Overview
- The Home Office will cut automatic refugee stay rights from five years to 30 months and extend the route to permanent residency from five to 20 years.
- Ministers plan to revoke the UK’s 2005 legal duty to provide guaranteed asylum support, enabling the withdrawal of housing and weekly allowances.
- Refugee status will be reviewed regularly, with returns pursued when officials judge repatriation can be done safely.
- The government says it will create designated safe routes so people can apply for asylum without crossing the Channel in small boats.
- Shabana Mahmood is due to set out full details in Parliament on Monday, as small-boat arrivals this year top 39,000 and critics, including Conservative MP Chris Philp, argue the measures will not stop the crossings.