Motion
- Motion title
- Resisting Earned Settlement proposals
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2026
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 7
- Motion text
Congress notes Government proposals to make the granting of permanent residence dependent on financial contributions, rather than length of residence, delaying permanent settled status for up to 20 years.
Congress believes:
1. This will create a two-tiered society with non-citizens becoming increasingly vulnerable to exploitation, particularly trafficked women and domestic workers.
2. Children of non-citizens risk losing any route to permanent settled status.
3. Migrants are irreplaceable members of universities and contributors to international knowledge exchange.
Congress resolves:
a. To campaign against this attack on the rights of migrants, including lobbying MPs.
b. To demand employer financial support for migrant colleagues facing the additional costs of seeking settled status.
c. To defend existing rights of members, including Indefinite Leave to Remain, and oppose other restrictions on rights to settlement.
- Proposing body
- University College London (UCL)
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2026/C/05-27/008/7