Same- being told it's a protected file

It’s the Times reporting analysis that we’ve done at the Refugee Council. The i was the first paper to report it.

All we know about that route is that people will have to pay a fee to switch. There’s no information about how long it will be, but assuming at least 10 years, or what the qualifying levels will be.

Can probably all be done through changes the immigration rules, which has minimal scrutiny. They may choose to do some of it in a bill though.

That article is about not facing criminal prosecution for something which wasn’t illegal at the time of the action. Can’t see that that applies to the changes of a group’s settlement entitlements

I don’t see how they’re contradictory - the Thursday announcement added extra detail that wasn’t in the earlier, Monday announcement. And if you could point me towards the article that proscribes it, that would very useful. This can also be done without primary legislation.

It was in the government announcement about settlement last Thursday. When the asylum reforms were announced last Monday it wasn’t stated that they would be retrospective. I

Our @refugeecouncil.bsky.social analysis suggests that by the next election in 2029 the Home Office could need to process around 100,000 status reviews - about the same size as the current asylum backlog.

The last Labour government had multiple integration strategies - this government appears to be pursuing the opposite.

It’s also a massive administrative challenge. Instead of only processing one ILR application at the 5 year mark, it could be 8 applications over 20 years.

Our new analysis shows once the system is fully operational, 1.66-1.9m reviews of refugee status would need to be done over the first decade, resulting in a total cost of between £1.1 - 1.27bn, depending on how many people lose their protection at review.

We think the 20 years is the max if someone has refugee status. Don’t know how it will operate on the work/study route. It should be self explanatory why it’s highly likely refugees will have spent some time in receipt of benefits.

Anyone who has leave but not ILR would get switched onto the core protection route, then could apply to switch to the work/study route (as far as can tell). We don’t know what that will mean for settlement.

The settlement consultation says it applies to people already with limited leave, and it was reported to be the case earlier in the week. It depends when it comes in and if there is any transitional stuff, but around 160k people have been granted asylum in the last 5 years, not including post appeal