With a draft agreement in place before the UK's planned exit
from the EU next March, it is a good time to take stock of the
current UK immigration landscape.
EU nationals have taken heart from the new EU Settlement Scheme,
which flows from the draft Withdrawal Agreement approved by the EU
member states last weekend and subject to a crucial vote in
Parliament in December. In keeping with this, the UK has created a
simple online registration system for EU nationals in the form of
the EU Settlement Scheme. All EU nationals compliantly in the UK
now, or arriving in the UK before the end of the
Implementation/Transition phase on 31 December 2020, will need to
register by a deadline of 30 June 2021. A phased roll out of the EU
Settlement Scheme has already begun in the North West of England
and full implementation is due from March 2019.
