Over the past many years, the UK attracted skilled migrants from all over the world through two Home Office schemes - Work Permits and HSMP (Highly Skilled Migrant Programme). Migrants who entered the UK under these two schemes had no recourse to public funds and had Limited Leave to Remain but they paid taxes and national insurance contributions alike any other working member of the public.

To enable long-resident migrants to setup UK as their primary residence, the Home Office promised them Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after four years of continuous residency in the UK. In April 2006, the Home Office changed this policy and increased the requirement for ILR to five years for both Work Permit and HSMP visa holders and retrospectively applied this change, for those who were already in the UK.

On 6th April 2009, HSMP Forum Ltd won a Judicial Review, requesting the Home Office to reinstate the original ILR conditions for all pre-April 2006 HSMP visa holders.

The Work Permit scheme was also a route to ILR and a petition has been submitted to the Prime Minister to reinstate the original ILR conditions for all pre-April 2006 Work Permit holders:
Click Here to Sign the petition

Please sign the above petition and forward to your family and friends - this petition can be signed by any national residing in the UK.

On behalf of Work Permit Forum
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