“Immigrants into UK should only be able to apply for British citizenship after being in UK for 15 years rather than the current requirement of 6 years. Also anybody who enters UK illegally will be forever banned from getting uk citizenship”.
UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.
Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has proposed stricter citizenship rules, calling for an end to granting UK citizenship to Nigerians and other migrants who have not lived in the country for at least 15 years.
Badenoch in a video shared on her X account, seeks to tighten the immigration system by extending the period before migrants can apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from five to ten years.
She also disclosed that those who claim benefits, access social housing, or have criminal records would be barred from settling in the UK permanently.
“I want to reduce immigration and make living here actually mean something. We need to change the way our immigration system works. So I am announcing that the conservative party is going to do the following things differently:
“1. If you want to stay in our country permanently and apply for indefinite leave to remain, the time you have to live here before you apply would increase from 5 years to 10 years.
“2. You will have to be a net contributor with a high enough salary, especially if you want to bring family members with you. And if you have a criminal record, you are banned.
“We would increase the time you can apply for a British passport from 12 months to 5 years, meaning it will take a minimum of 15 years to start an application. If you enter this country illegally or overstay your visa, you will be banned from ever getting leave to remain or a passport,” she said in the video.
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Kemi Badenoch has proposed stricter measures to tighten UK’s immigration policy.
https://x.com/irnewsregion/status/1887461805607313669?t=FrZZmR-FLdvdn3GYJLSoqw&s=19
Badenoch’s plan also cracks down on welfare access for immigrants.
While most migrants on work visas, asylum seekers, and those in the UK illegally cannot claim state benefits due to the “no recourse to public funds” condition, some have had the restriction lifted.
Badenoch argued that the current system had created a “conveyor belt” to citizenship, allowing too many people to settle in the UK too quickly and “creating a strain on public services.”
“We need to make sure that people coming here have a real, meaningful connection to the UK—no criminal records, they should be net contributors to the economy, not relying on benefits but people who care about our country and our communities,” she said in ss quoted by BBC.
