New statistics released this week show that EU Settled Status (EUSS) applications in April were at their lowest number since the scheme was launched in March 2019, with only 67,300 applications.
The Home Office itself says that the focus now must be around targeting those more vulnerable in the final 12 months of the scheme.
However, in addition to other barriers faced by those most vulnerable (such as language barriers, lack of ID, IT literacy, unsociable working hours), the lockdown has seen the closure of the EUSS Resolution Centre, the suspension of the ability to send documents by post, as well as the closure of all local scanning centres.
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