With the UK’s scheduled exit from the EEA mere three weeks away, the Home Office have just released further clarification of the rules under their proposed EU Settlement Scheme post ‘Brexit’. We have summarised the clarification on the rules below:
Non-EEA citizens will be able to apply for an “EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit” to join or accompany an EEA citizen who was been granted leave under the settlement scheme. Those Family Permits will be valid for six months.
The scheme will be open to the family members of British citizens who were exercising their free movement rights under EU law before returning to the UK (‘Surinder Singh’ cases) and to the family members of certain dual British/EU citizens.
Extended family members will have rights of appeal.
There will be no application fee under the scheme. It will be possible to apply under the scheme from outside the UK.
Almost everyone must go digital, unless a paper application is “approved on an individual basis in light of the exceptional circumstances of the case”. It will be possible to submit national ID cards as identity documents for EEA nationals, and biometric residence cards for non-EEA family members.
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