Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 10th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with banks about (a) the decision to allow applicants to the EU settlement scheme to submit as documentary evidence of five years of continuous residence an annual bank statement or an account summary covering a 12-month period and (b) that information being provided free of charge.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

We will accept a wide range of documentation as proof of residence for applications to the EU Settlement Scheme, including, where necessary, to supplement the information provided by the automated checks of employment and benefits records.

A list of recommended documents which seeks to guide applicants to use the evidence they have most readily available, and which has been discussed with stakeholder groups, is included in Annex A of the published caseworker guidance for the private beta test phase of the scheme: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/736281/EU_Settlement_Scheme___Caseworker_guidance.pdf

We will update this list in light of the operation of the private beta test phase, but the range of evidence that may be accepted is not limited to the items on it.

We recognise that some applicants may lack documentary evidence, including bank statements, for various reasons, and therefore we will work flexibly with applicants to help them evidence their continuous residence in the UK by the best means available to them. As it is not a requirement of the scheme to provide bank statements, we have not discussed the matter with banks.

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