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Unsettling news for the Home Office

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Sioned Wyn Roberts & Agata Patyna urge the government to reconsider new immigration measures & stop deporting homeless people

The UK has now left the EU and the Brexit ‘transition period’ is over. In order to allow EU nationals and their family members to apply for leave to remain in the UK, the government introduced the EU Settled Status (EUSS) scheme, which remains open until 30 June 2021.

The EUSS is a government scheme, administered by the Home Office, which has been put into place to allow EU nationals (plus those of Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) to apply to continue to have the right to live in the UK, with associated rights and freedoms. Those who need to apply under the scheme to continue lawfully to reside in the UK also include family members of EU nationals, those EU nationals and their family members who already have a document stating they have a permanent right to reside (under EU law) and those born in

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