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ARTICLE · 12 JANUARY 2023

High Court Ruling On EU Settlement Scheme - Home Office "Wrong In Law"

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The Home Office rules arising from Brexit, relating to EU citizens with pre-settled status requiring them to apply for settled status after five years of residence in the United Kingdom has been found...

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The Home Office rules arising from Brexit, relating to EU citizens with pre-settled status requiring them to apply for settled status after five years of residence in the United Kingdom has been found to be "wrong in law" by the High Court this week.

In response to Brexit the Home Office introduced the EU Settlement Scheme in 2018 to facilitate applications from EU citizens living in the United Kingdom to regularise and upgrade their status to enable them to continue to live and work in the UK. Questions were raised at the time regarding certain groups of people that may, for various reasons, not be aware or capable of making such an application. Such as older people who settled in the UK many decades ago who believed that they did not need to apply or were unaware of the scheme, some parents of children born in the UK who mistakenly believed that their children were automatically UK citizens by virtue of the birth in the UK. Oxford University's Migration Observatory

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