UNIONS welcomed today Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood watering down her “morally bankrupt” plans to make foreign carers wait 15 years for permanent settlement.Foreign workers who meet their health and social care visa conditions and earn at least £25,000 a year will have to wait five years instead, Ms Mahmood told the Commons.She claimed her plans would cut welfare spending by billions and that those who don’t qualify will be able to apply for a new five-year visa, and then apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) once it has been completed.