EU Settlement Scheme

• Application for settled or pre-settled status

• Adding a family member to existing pre-settled or settled status

• Update personal details in the Home office database

• Upgrading status from pre-settled to settled

• Completion of status application.

•  Appeals. Help after the application is being refused

If you’re from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, you and your family might be able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK. You might also be able to apply if you’re the family member of an eligible person of Northern Ireland.

The deadline for most people to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme was 30 June 2021.

If you or your family are from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, you can still apply if you or a family member were living in the UK by 31 December 2020. You must also either:

• meet one of the criteria for a later deadline to apply

• have ‘reasonable grounds’ for not applying by 30 June 2021

• You can also apply if you already have pre-settled status, and you’re applying for settled status.

Who is eligible for the EU Settlement Scheme

You must meet one of the eligibility criteria for the scheme, which for most people is either:

• you’re from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and you started living in the UK by 31 December 2020

• you’re the family member of someone from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein who started living in the UK by 31 December 2020

You may also be eligible if:

• you used to have a family member from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein who started living in the UK by 31 December 2020 (but you’ve separated, they’ve died, or the family relationship has broken down)

• you’re the family member of a British citizen whom you lived within the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein - you must have lived with them in that country by 31 December 2020 and returned to the UK with them before you apply

• you’re the family member of a British citizen who also is a citizen of an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, and they lived in the UK as a citizen of one of these countries before getting British citizenship

• you have a family member who is an eligible person of Northern Ireland

• you’re the child of someone from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein who used to live and work in the UK - you must be in education in the UK

• you’re the family member of a person who is exempt from immigration control

• you’re the family member of a ‘frontier worker’