Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
Indefinite leave to remain means you are free from immigration control. There are no restrictions on your work or length of your stay, and try taking that away from anyone and you will have a fight on your hands and i'm sure any court case will side on those who have ILR and not the gov, The HSMP pressure groups won a victory against the gov never seen before,


Retrospective changes made to visas allowing highly skilled migrants to live and work in Britain are "conspicuously unfair" and constitute an abuse of power by the government, a British court was told.

"The conspicuous unfairness leaps from the page," Michael Fordham, counsel for the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP) Forum, told the high court Wednesday.

He accused the government of "moving the goalposts" and described HSMP visa changes as "unlawful, unreasonable and unfair by a considerable margin".



so you can imagine what will happen if they try to make any changes to people who have ILR already, or maybe even those who are going to apply for it soon..
Think we're talking about slightly different things... I'm talking about being tougher on anyone who gains ILR, then moves away from the UK (maybe back to their home country), just returning to the UK every couple of years to keep their ILR alive. As ILR doesn't mean you have an automatic right to enter the UK (unlike British citizenship), it would be easy to block entry at immigration, unless the person could prove they were returning to the UK to settle.