Recommendation 27

We recommend that people who under the current system would be on a 10- year family or private life route to settlement be given a route under the new rules that is reasonable and achievable. People should not be placed on a 30-year route to settlement. To reduce the financial pressures associated with repeat applications, and the risk of people losing status, the Home Office should increase the duration of leave to remain on the family or private life route from 2.5 to 5 years, and set visa fees for people granted leave on the basis of their family and private life at no higher than the cost of administration. (Recommendation, Paragraph 99) Children who have spent most of their life in the UK