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Those who apply late to the EU Settlement Scheme, and joining family members, will have rights protected while their application is determined.

• Updated: 6 August 2021

Today (27 May) the Home Office published EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics up to March 2021.

• Updated: 27 May 2021

This important milestone was reached with eight months still to go before the 30 June 2021 deadline.

• Updated: 8 October 2020

Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes has written to MPs to update them on the progress of the EU Settlement Scheme public test phase.

• Updated: 11 August 2020

The Refugee and Migrant Centre provides invaluable support to help vulnerable EU citizens apply to the EU Settlement Scheme in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall.

• Updated: 24 July 2020

Home Office announces further funding for charities and local authorities to provide face-to-face, online and telephone support across the UK.

• Updated: 6 March 2020

The milestone was reached less than a year after the scheme was fully launched to the public, with more than 2.7 million already granted status.

• Updated: 6 February 2020

Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced that there have been 2 million applications to the EU Settlement Scheme.

• Updated: 9 October 2019

If there's a no deal Brexit, border controls will be introduced to make it harder for criminals to enter the UK.

• Updated: 4 September 2019

New statistics up to the end of July show more than 950,000 applications from England, 50,000 from Scotland, 15,000 from Wales and 12,000 from Northern Ireland.

• Updated: 15 August 2019

More than 200,000 people applied to the scheme during public testing.

• Updated: 2 May 2019

57 organisations throughout the UK have been awarded funding from £9 million available, supporting an estimated 200,000 vulnerable or hard to reach EU citizens.

• Updated: 12 April 2019

Health and social care workers from the EU with professional qualifications can continue to practise in the UK as they do now.

• Updated: 4 April 2019

Meetings for citizens of Central and Eastern European countries residing in the UK took place on 11-12 February 2019 in Glasgow and Leeds.

• Updated: 14 February 2019

In the event of no deal, EU citizens will be able to enter the UK to visit, work or study after 29 March 2019. For stays longer than 3 months, European Temporary Leave to Remain will be required.

• Updated: 28 January 2019

Meetings for citizens of Central and Eastern European countries residing in the UK will take place in February 2019 in Glasgow and Leeds.

• Updated: 24 January 2019

After successful private pilots of the system, the next testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme is now opening more widely.

• Updated: 20 December 2018

Toolkit will support organisations in reassuring and helping EU citizens apply for settled status.

• Updated: 25 July 2018

Testing follows the standard approach for the launch of new government services.

• Updated: 20 July 2018

The ‘UKRI Science, Research and Academia’ scheme allows non-EEA researchers, scientists and academics to come to the UK for up to 2 years.

• Updated: 6 July 2018