Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is reportedly preparing to dilute proposals to overhaul legal migration rules following pushback across the Labour Party and the cabinet.

Ms Mahmood is expected to announce her final decisions to parliament next week, with ministers poised to scale back plans that would have forced tens of thousands of social care staff already working in the UK to wait up to 15 years for permanent settlement, the BBC reports .

Under the Home Office ’s original blueprints, the baseline qualification period for indefinite leave to remain was set to double from five years to 10, with lower-paid foreign workers facing a wait of up to 15 years before securing permanent residency.

But now, following a public consultation that generated more than 200,000 responses, the government is expected to exempt existing social care workers from the lengthened timetable.

Shabana Mahmood is expected to present revised immigration rules to parliament next week (AFP/Getty)

Most other foreign workers are still…