Visas: Ukraine
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 45216 on Visas: Ukraine, if she will take steps to ensure financial reasons are not used as a factor when deciding to give Ukrainians indefinite leave to remain.
Answered by Seema Malhotra
The UK continues to provide Ukrainian nationals and their family members, where they qualify, a specific route so that they are able to seek sanctuary in the UK. Permission to stay in the UK under the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme provides entitlements to access work, benefits, healthcare, and education. Furthermore, those eligible to apply are not required to pay an application fee or the immigration health surcharge.
The Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme is not a route to settlement. These measures are consistent with our respectful wishes of the Government of Ukraine that its citizens will eventually return to Ukraine to help rebuild the country.
It is open to anyone on the Ukraine schemes to switch to any route to settlement within the Immigration Rules for which they qualify. It is fair that rules on other routes such as family or work routes that lead to settlement apply to all nationalities. This includes the financial requirements of the family rules and the salary requirements of work routes which must still be met at the point of settlement.
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