170,000 People Waiting A Decade To Settle In The U.K.

A relatively unknown part of the U.K. immigration system means hundreds of thousands of people are living under a second-class set of residency conditions. These people have to wait far longer, and pay much more, for a secure status, even as human rights law ensures they can’t be deported. And according to numbers from Oxford University’s Migration Observatory, the number of these people has doubled in less than five years.

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