Quote Originally Posted by Iani View Post
Begs the question of if they'd need to put any change to income through parliament, in which case it'd have to be tacked on to a bill, and won't come in this year.

Depends on if it could be classed as a departure enough from the law to warrant being part of a parliamentary bill, as for example, they are having to do with the change of preventing anyone appealing against a refusal of family visit visa. Some types of applications they can just stop, but it looks like to prevent ALL - it's had to be tacked on to the crime bill.........or something like that.

Frankly who knows. They have said "in due course" - which could mean today, tomorrow or in 2 years
immigration rules are not primary or secondary legislation and are therefore not generally debated in parliament. They come get force unless disapproved of by parliament which is unusual. There would be no need for proposed changes to the rules to be mentioned in the queens speech.