From 8 October 2026, if a long residence permission-to-stay application cannot succeed but the Home Office thinks you may qualify as a partner, parent or child under Appendix FM, or under Appendix Private Life, it can vary your application to that route instead of simply refusing it. You pay no new application fee, but you […]
Switching visas does not, by itself, reset your 10-year long residence clock. That is the short answer, and for most people it is the reassuring one. The long residence route to indefinite leave to remain lets you add up time spent on different qualifying visas, so moving from a Student visa to a Graduate visa […]
If you are on a route to indefinite leave to remain and worried about the government’s earned settlement plans, the short version is this: nothing has changed yet. On 15 September 2026, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, gave evidence to the Home Affairs Committee and confirmed that the new settlement policy, including any transitional arrangements, […]