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Britain is introducing the most restrictive immigration changes in recent memory.
Before British citizenship, In the case of Permanent Residence Permits or Indefinite Leave to Remain, the UK residence rules apply to five consecutive years on specified visas. The home office of the country is planning to increase this period from five to eight years.
Other major changes include requiring applicants to provide proof of at least two years of work or two years of study in Britain. Also, if the applicant has been convicted in any case within ten years prior to the application, he will lose the eligibility to apply for permanent residence.
In addition, the application for Indefinite Leave to Remain for those over 65 years of age does not require a test on the lifestyle in Britain, but the new proposal also provides for the Life in the UK test for them, as mentioned in the Daily Mail report on Sunday (June 4).
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told a meeting of European leaders last week that controlling immigration would be one of his main goals. This was followed by renewed proposals for tougher immigration laws.
Britain's political analysts say that Prime Minister Sunak has proposed such immigration control in order to attract the votes of anti-immigration British voters to his own party, the Conservative Party, ahead of the general election in Britain next year.
Luton's Liberal Democratic Party leader and UK Bangla Press Club treasurer Mahbubul Karim Suyedd told on Sunday that the main purpose of the immigration is to return the boatloads of people who came to Britain for the purpose of immigration or to impose conditions for those who are living in the country anew. In Chan, the anti-immigration vote is drawn in favor of self. The government is taking such steps during the tenure of such a prime minister, where the family of the prime minister himself was an immigrant.
A spokesperson for the British government said that being a British citizen is a status not a right. Recipients of this status are required to contribute to Britain.
Shuvagata Dey, a barrister of Lexpert Solicitors in London, told to Daily Dazzling Down that the process that was going on in the country to control immigration in Britain is the money of Brexit, Corona and Ukraine war. It has gained a new momentum after the Tik and political changes.
The government wants those who will get the opportunity of permanent residence and citizenship in the new tax not to be the reason of the increase of the government. So that they can contribute to Britain in economic and social fields.