The front page of the Daily Telegraph (08/01/20) read ‘EU warning over rights for citizens after Brexit’.
What can the problem be? Surely they can all apply for settled status (EUSS) and they’ll be fine.
In fact, many EU citizens had already applied for permanent residency ((EEA PR)) in the UK under EU law.
Home Office (HO) statistics show that 2016-17 saw an unprecedented spike in numbers of people applying for EEA PR in the UK (Fig 1) in order to acquire some legal security.
This blog will examine the little-discussed problems around permanent residency and settled status and the question of cost. Read more here