Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the cost to EU citizens of applying for settled status after the UK leaves the EU will be equivalent to the cost of a British passport before or after changes to those costs announced on 29 January 2018.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The Joint Report that the Government agreed with the EU in December sets out that documents “will be issued free of charge or for a charge not exceeding that imposed on nationals for the issuing of similar documents.” In the UK, this means that the fee for settled status documents will be no more than the fee for a UK passport (but not necessarily that it will be the same). We will set out the fee in regulations in due course and subject to Parliamentary scrutiny in the usual way.


In accordance with our agreement with the EU, for those who hold valid EEA permanent residence documentation, there will be a simple process to exchange this for a settled status document free of charge.

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