The new rules come into effect on 20 June just before the tenth anniversary of the existing ‘ten-year route’ process, through which discretionary settlement applications can be made.
However, campaigners that have fought against the introduction of this process since 2012 on the grounds it is lengthy and expensive, are claiming the rule changes as a “major victory” for migrant children and young adults wanting to live in the UK.
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) said it had long argued the ten-year route process was “an injustice” to the migrant children and their families that had to live within it and should be replaced.
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