Home Office о будущем украинских схем

[British Lawyer]

20 March 2024
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>>> Home Office Policy Lead, David Ramsbotham, on the future of the Ukrainian Schemes

This has been picked up by me during today’s online conference where David was one of the panellists.

Someone asked if there would be a similar scheme for the people from Gaza like the Ukrainian Schemes ?

David said the following: 

“The Ukrainian Scheme is a temporary scheme created with the help of the Ukrainian government who REASSURED us that they would accept Ukrainians back upon the end of the Schemes…therefore these Schemes were introduced”.

As the Ukrainian Schemes currently will only allow the applicants to remain in the UK for up to 4.5 years (original grant of 3 years and the 1.5 year extension = 4.5 years), that is, just 6 months short from the “standard” route length for Settlement (Skilled Worker, Family Migration (Appendix FM aka UK Spouse visa etc), the above statement is very worrying, to say at least, as it sends a clear message, at least for now, that the UK Government may not offer the Ukrainians on the Ukrainian Schemes the option to settle in the UK at all. With that in mind, the Ukrainians residing in the UK under the Ukrainian Schemes, may need to start thinking about possibly switching into other immigration categories in order to remain in the UK beyond the end of their Ukrainian Scheme visas.