Nigel Farage,líder do Reform UK
Permanent residence status is “huge burden for the state,” says a reformist party, who leads the polls. At least 800 thousand will be eligible.
The British reformist party announced a plan on Monday to terminate the status of permanent residence in the UK and potentially deport Hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants to save on social security expense.
The Radical right -wing populist party estimated that 3.8 million people entered the country with long -term visas since 2019 and that at least 800 thousand will be eligible for the Statute of Permanent Residence [Indefinite Leave to Remain, ILR] between 2026 and 2030.
This statute, achieved after five years of legal residence in the country, guarantees the right to live, work and study in the United Kingdom and access to the public health service and British social subsidies.
“It is not up to us to ensure the social protection of people from around the world. The 800,000 people who will obtain residence permit unless this policy is revoked, they tend to be young and poorly qualified. They will be a huge burden for the state“The reformist leader, Nigel Farage, said on Monday at a press conference.
Farage proposed, if he is elected Prime Minister, to abolish the status of permanent residence in the current format and replace it with a Five -year -old renewable, without access to the National Health System, without the right to bring family members to the UK and with a higher salary requirement. Immigrants with residence permit will have the status annulled and will have to apply again, at the risk of being deported.
However, Farage assured that the Europeans registered in the European Union’s Citizens Registration System [EU Settlement Scheme, EUSS]open within the UK Exit process of the Community Block, will not be affected.
Recent data indicate that 316 thousand Portuguese The status of permanent residence and 177,000 the provisional statute through EUSS were obtained.
“Under a reformist government, the Social Security system will only be for British citizens, it will not be for foreign citizens,” said Farage.
To ask for naturalization, immigrants will have to wait seven years instead of the current fiveadded the politician.
For foreign labor-dependent sectors such as health, the party promises to introduce a “acute scarcity visa” into “extremely limited numbers” and force companies to form British citizens to fill the same vacancies.
The reformists, who Lead the polls for several months At the head of the labor party in power, they hope to save at least 230 billion pounds (263 billion euros) with this measure.
