Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 24th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to confirm that applications to the EU Settlement Scheme made by 31 December 2020, in respect of which consideration of a criminal record or criminal proceedings is relevant, will have their conduct assessed at the higher threshold of suitability applicable at that time based on EU law grounds of public policy, public security or public health for relevant conduct that occurred prior to 11pm on 31 December 2020.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 2nd July 2021

Where an EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applicant’s criminality is a relevant consideration, their conduct will be assessed against the threshold relevant to the period in which the conduct was committed.

Conduct committed before the end of the transition period (11pm on 31 December 2020) will be assessed against the EU law public policy, public security or public health test.

Conduct committed after the end of the transition period will be assessed against the UK’s criminality threshold.

This is irrespective of the date on which the application was submitted to the EUSS.

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