{"id":81461,"date":"2025-11-20T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81461"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:27:49","slug":"some-migrants-to-face-20-year-wait-for-settled-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/some-migrants-to-face-20-year-wait-for-settled-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Some migrants to face 20 year wait for settled status"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2560\/cpsprodpb\/7aaf\/live\/0023a660-c613-11f0-bac6-252b1f2b7e52.jpg\" alt=\"Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood walks outside Downing Street with a red binder\" width=\"488\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Migrants who are in the UK legally could have to wait up to 20 years before they can settle permanently, under government proposals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3w9wlney23o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Migrants who are in the UK legally could have to wait up to 20 years before they can settle permanently, under government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Migrant-with-baby.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81462,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81461\/revisions\/81462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}