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The Withdrawal Agreement was a commitment to protect the rights of EU/EEA citizens and their family members already resident in the UK before December 2020. Incorrect application of the eligibility rules for hosuing support can have serious consequences, including homelessness and removal of children into care. Our early research findings suggest m…

Recent weeks have seen empty shelves in supermarkets and fuel delivery shortages at petrol stations around Great Britain. To combat this, the government is now expanding visa numbers for temporary migrant workers, seasonal workers, to come to the UK to ‘deliver our Christmas dinner’. Read more, here

What is next for EU nationals living in the UK? Read more here 

Read more on the lst seven days of the scheme hereThe deadline to apply for EU Settled Status is just seven days away. All EU nationals living in the UK (adults and children), need to make an application under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) before 30 June 2021 – so in a week’s time – to secure their continued right to live and work in the UK.As we…

EU citizens and their non-EU family members (NEFM) wishing to remain resident in the UK must apply for EU Settled Status (EUSS) before 30th June 2021. Generally, this must be done via an online application. However, some groups, often the most precarious, can access the scheme only via a paper application.Following a freedom of information (FOI) re…

The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) allows EU nationals who arrived by 31 December 2020 (and some others) to protect their rights to live and work in the UK.The aim of this report is to explain the scheme, its background, how it works, who has applied, who may not have, and the lessons we have learned so far.Read the report here

New working paper published by the UK in a Changing Europe called 'The Changing Status of EU Nationals in the UK post Brexit: the Lived Experience of the EU Settlement Scheme'' read a short blog outlining our findings here and the full paper here

EU citizens unable to acquire NINO are being barred from vital pandemic support payments. Find out more about the impact here

There are now under 100 days left in which to make an application to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). All EU, EEA and Swiss nationals and their non-EU family members living in the UK must make an application to the scheme before 30 June 2021.To date, there have been 5.2 million applications to the EU Settlement Scheme: 53% have received decisions g…

Vulnerable children are falling through the gaps of the UK's settled status scheme for EU citizens, shows our latest research. Results from our FOI show that in the first 18 months of the EUSS scheme only 30% of children and young people identified were supported bu apply for EUSS. Read more on our findings, here.

January 2020 will see the end of EU free movement to the UK and the new Immigration Bill will introduce a points-based immigration system whereby individuals will need a job offer at an appropriate skill level, meeting a £25,600 salary threshold, and knowledge of English to move to the UK. These new requirements will rule out many of the migrant wo…

According to a recent reportin the Guardian EU nationals rough sleeping in the UK after 1 January could face deportation under immigration rules to be laid before Parliament.However, homeless EU nationals are already being ‘reconnected’ to their country of origin by local authorities in a practice which currently is going under the radar.‘Reconnect…

New Blog article about Non-EU Family Members and EUSS. The transition periodis coming to an end in December 2020, and EU nationals and their family members need to make an application to the UK’s EU Settled Status (EUSS) scheme before the end of the grace period in June 2021. Those family members can include non-EU nationals who, due to their famil…

The EU Migrant Worker Project was featured on BBC Look East on 26th August, after an outbreak of Corona Virus at a factory in Norfolk. You can watch the full programme here, with our project interview at 11.50. 

The EU Settled Status (EUSS) application and registration process was introduced by the UK government in March 2019, in a move to preserve the rights of those EU nationals already living in the UK after Brexit.Applications to the EUSS scheme have now exceeded the official estimate of the number of EU nationals thought to be living in the UK. Accord…