Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the main reasons were for UK Visas and Immigration to refuse 1,400 applications to the EU Settlement Scheme in June 2020.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 20th July 2020

The majority of applications to the EU Settlement Scheme which have resulted in a refusal were due to there being insufficient evidence of the applicant’s eligibility, as detailed in the Home Office EU Settlement Scheme Statistics User Guide. Eligibility refusals comprise 99 per cent of the total refusals up to 31 May 2020, with the remaining refusals being made on suitability grounds. A breakdown of the refusal decisions made in June 2020 will be published in the next quarterly statistics release, due to be published in August 2020.

The published statistics include all refusals of status under the scheme.

Ministers agreed a high level of assurance that is applied prior to any application to the EU Settlement Scheme being refused. Cases identified as potential refusals are subject to stringent scrutiny and review and the number of applications refused remains proportionately low in comparison to applications which have been granted. Before refusing an application under the scheme, UK Visas and Immigration will seek to work with the applicant to help them provide the evidence required to demonstrate that they qualify for settled status and, if not, for pre-settled status and, where appropriate, will exercise discretion in their favour in order to minimise administrative burdens on the applicant

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