UK’s higher-earning immigrants may be driven out by tougher rules, report suggests

Figures raise questions over ministers' plans to raise qualifying period for settled status from five years to 10

Higher-earning immigrants are less likely to remain in the UK long-term and could be further deterred from staying by the government's planned crackdown on settlement rights, analysis has revealed.

A report from the Migration Advisory Committee's , Who Stays, Who Leaves?, follows about 900,000 journeys between 2014 and 2024.