Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to process all applications for the EU Settlement Scheme before 30 June 2021.

We are fully committed to ensuring that we have the flexible resources required to run an efficient and effective migration system; including the continued delivery of the EU Settlement Scheme until 30 June 2021 and beyond.

Administration of the Scheme will not cease on 30 June 2021; that is the deadline that EEA citizens and their family members resident in the UK have to apply for status. There will be some instances were applications made after 30 June 2021 will be accepted and guidance on that will be published in due course.

EEA citizens and their family members who have already been granted pre-settled status will be able to make a subsequent application for settled status once they meet the criteria of being resident in the UK for a continuous year five-year period.

EEA citizens who hold Scheme status may also bring close family members to join them in the UK after the 30 June 2021 deadline. Such family members will be able to make an application to the Scheme, provided they meet the relevant criteria.