RP Singh Solicitors

11/12/2025

📢 Important Update for Anyone on a Path to Settlement or Citizenship!

🚨 Apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) or Naturalisation before April 2026 to avoid new, stricter rules being introduced later in the year.

🔍 What You Need to Know

Changes are coming following the May 2025 Immigration White Paper:

- The minimum period to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) will rise from 5 to 10 years for most visa categories.

- Special "earned settlement" provisions may reduce this to 5 years but only for those who meet clearly defined contribution criteria.

- The settlement qualifying period change is being consulted on now (open until 12 February 2026) and is expected to take effect from April 2026.

- Naturalisation timelines will follow ILR. Delaying your ILR could push your citizenship eligibility even further out.

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31/05/2024

We are grateful to The Quality Business Awards to be annnounced as the best immigration lawyers in the New Forest.

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31/01/2024

🚨 Immigration News Alert 🚨

⚫️ On 14 March, new Immigration Rules will be introduced to increase earnings thresholds for those on the Skilled Worker route from £26,200 to £38,700. These changes will come into force from 4 April 2024. Those on Health and Care routes will be exempted from this threshold.

Therefore, those businesses looking to employ skilled foreign national workers will be required to pay a minimum salary of £38,700 from 4 April 2024.

⚫️ Family visa requirements (spouse/partner visa requirements) will also be brought in line with the new minimum general salary threshold of £38,700. This will be done incrementally.

From 11 April 2024 the threshold will increase to £29,000.

Later it will increase to £34,500, and finally to £38,700 by early 2025.

If you fall in love abroad and wish for your foreign partner to join you in the UK, you will soon have to earn a minimum grosss salary of £38,700 to be able to live with them here.

16/01/2024

We are looking to employ a full-time Immigration Paralegal.

Please contact us if interested.

27/11/2023

Wishing everyone a Happy Gurpurab 🙏🏽🧡💙

14/04/2023

Wishing you all a very happy Vaisakhi
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12/09/2022

We are looking for an Admin Assistant for our Southampton office.

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14/04/2022

Wishing you all a Happy Vaisakhi 🙏🏽🧡💙

06/01/2022

So, this is the Government's reply received further to the petition to remove Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill.

It's really not surprising that the request has been rejected. Whilst they provide reasoning for the clause, it is still a very dangerous piece of legislation which can be heavily abused by the Secretary of State.

If recent history has taught us anything the words abuse and Secretary of State (currently Priti Patel) have been used frequently together. We should be very worried.

Take for example the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen born and raised in the UK, who is currently being held in Prison in India for over 4 years without any charge, evidence or conviction. His "wrongdoing" was to have a website highlighting the disappearance of Sikhs in India. It would seem, Jagtar, a human rights campaigner, will now be at risk of his British nationality being taken away from him without notice as a result of the Nationality and Borders Bill.

25/09/2021