Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has scrapped a plan that would have required migrant social care workers already in the UK to wait 15 years for indefinite leave to remain (ILR). Under the new rules, social care workers who earn at least £25,000 and who arrived before May 2025 may apply for ILR after five years' residence. Mahmood also removed the rule requiring all low‑paid workers to wait 15 years for ILR; the waiting period for other low‑paid workers is reduced to 10 years.

AMEC said PECVD and CuBS PVD are its highest-value thin-film deposition products. Its PECVD system uses 16 reaction stations and a new plasma source, delivering roughly 80–100% higher deposition throughput versus domestic and foreign standard equipment; PECVD nitride-oxide stacks and carbon hard-mask products are in successful client validation. Its CuBS PVD features 14 reaction chambers and a symmetric dual-path design, materially lowering BS-layer resistivity and boosting output by about 50–100%; multiple leading customers have approved the tool and units have been delivered to domestic advanced-logic R&D lines for validation. EPI remains critical for advanced logic: AMEC’s reduced-pressure epitaxy tools have been shipped to an advanced-process client for production validation, and its atmospheric-pressure epitaxy tools are entering wafer validation.

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