Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 3rd July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's publication entitled The United Kingdom's Exit from the European Union: Safeguarding the Position of EU Citizens Living in the UK and UK Nationals Living in the EU, published on 26 June 2017, when the length of the grace period referred to in paragraph 24 will be specified for EU nationals resident in the UK at the time the UK leaves the EU.


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Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 10th July 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, including specifying the length of the grace period, in due course.

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