Politics · 25 July 2026
Foreign care workers already in the UK could avoid tougher settlement rules
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood plans to double the time it takes for overseas staff to earn the right to stay permanently. Andy Burnham, who is prioritising reforms to the broken sector, wants to enforce these longer waiting periods strictly on future arrivals. The Home Office has handed out roughly 200,000 health and care visas across the past five years.
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