Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications from EU nationals seeking permanent residency in the UK are currently being processed; and how many have been processed in each month since January 2016.

Currently all EEA applications, including those for permanent residency and for other residence documentation under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, are being considered within the published service standards. Statistics on applications for permanent residence for European Economic Area (EEA) nationals are published quarterly in the Immigration Statistics.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017

The Government’s policy paper (Cm 9464), which was laid before Parliament on 26 June, sets out our proposals that European Union (EU) citizens who arrive in the UK before the specified date and have five years’ continuous residence in the UK will be able to apply for UK settled status.

We will publish further detail on the specifics of the new application process for settled status in due course.