Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have been invited to participate in the pilot of the application process for the EU Settlement Scheme had done so as of 5 September 2018.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

From 28 August we commenced our first private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme to prove some of the functionality and processes in a live environment.

This phase is open to around 4,000 eligible EU citizens from three Liverpool universities and 12 NHS Trusts in North West England who are working for or studying at these institutions. Any non-EU citizen family members of EU citizens who have previously been issued a biometric residence card under the EEA Regulations and are working for or studying at these institutions are also eligible.

The private beta phase is entirely voluntary. EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members who are eligible do not need to apply now and can choose to apply after the scheme has rolled out fully. Given the voluntary nature of the private beta phase, we do not expect all eligible EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members to apply.

Applications will cost £65, which is the standard fee for applicants aged 16 or over. It will, however, be free for those with valid permanent residence or indefinite leave to remain documentation.

We will use the learning from this phase to improve our processes ahead of further phased roll outs to all eligible EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members. Feedback from users so far has been very positive.

We will provide further details in due course of these subsequent phases, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.

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