The phrase "allowing them to settle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to giving something time or opportunity to become established or to reach a state of stability.
Example: "After pouring the mixture, we waited for a few minutes, allowing them to settle before serving."
Alternatives: "giving them time to stabilize" or "permitting them to rest."
These countries are not allowing them to settle, get permanent residence, citizenship and then become active citizens.
The presence of levees and the availability of flood insurance have also given people a dangerously false sense of security, allowing them to settle and develop right next to rivers on lands that were once floodplains.
While recently coaching a team of fourth- and fifth-grade girls, Mr. Petrisin rotated them to three different positions during practice; during games, he rotated them to two different positions, allowing them to settle into each for a full half.
It took until 1962 -- after Mr. Vlodinger had suffered a heart attack and had been told he might have Alzheimer's -- for them to receive a government go-ahead allowing them to settle near Tel Aviv.
Called the Global Impact Visa, it provides up to 400 entrepreneurs and investors with three-year visas, allowing them to settle in New Zealand and start a company or expand an established one.
One, they are starting families; two, they are looking at gentrified neighborhoods and finding them attractive; and three, many are finding entrepreneurship and remote working environments are allowing them to "settle" and still remain flexible in their careers.
People, being people, need political structures that allow them to settle disputes without violence.
But hosts are increasingly unfriendly to refugees, and ever more unwilling to allow them to settle permanently.
There seems to be a dynamic principle built into the very fabric of modern societies that does not allow them to settle, or to achieve equilibrium.
