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Background
The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill will end the EU’s rules on free movement of persons into the UK, bringing EEA and Swiss nationals and their family members under UK immigration control. This means they will require permission to enter and remain in the UK.
In line with the draft Withdrawal Agreement, if you are an EU citizen and want to stay in the UK beyond 31 December 2020, you and your family members will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. EU citizens resident in the UK for more than 5 continuous years will be eligible for settled status. EU citizens resident for less than 5 continuous years will be eligible for pre-settled status.
Any EU citizen who does not register for settled status within the timeframe set out by the Withdrawal Agreement will be considered undocumented and fall under the same immigration system as non-EU nationals.
However, the Immigration Bill does not set out what th…