Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for EU nationals to apply for special status.

All qualifying EU citizens and their family members will be given adequate time to apply for the new settled status. A grace period of blanket permission will last from EU exit day for a fixed period of time, which we will specify in due course, but which we expect to be up to two years.

The Government intends to introduce a voluntary scheme to enable eligible EU citizens and their family members to apply for this status before the UK leaves the EU, if they wish to do so. We will publish further details regarding the timetable in due course but we intend to launch in 2018.