Home Office Statistics released last Thursday (16/01/20) show applications for EU settled status (EUSS) are down. The implications of this are potentially serious for EU nationals living in the UK.
In late 2019, Boris Johnson remarked that ‘’EU migrants have been able to treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country’’ for too long, and he pledged to get much stricter on immigration after Brexit.
This means that those who have been legally resident in this country could potentially lose their status after the EUSS application deadline has passed.
In this article we examine reasons why applications might be down and what the likley consequences will be for those who miss the deadline. Read more here