EU Settlement Scheme private beta phase 2 rollout

Policy effect

Opens Phase 2 of the EU Settlement Scheme private beta under Appendix EU, allowing applications for settled or pre-settled status prior to 22 December 2018 from EU citizens and qualifying non-EU EEA residence document holders employed or engaged by designated Liverpool universities or designated NHS foundation trusts.

Conditions and exceptions

Applicant must be an EU citizen (not British) or a non-EU citizen holding a residence card/permanent residence card issued under the 2016 EEA Regulations on or after 6 April 2015, and must be employed or engaged by one of the 3 specified Liverpool universities or 15 specified NHS trusts. Excludes paragraphs EU12 and EU13, condition 2 in table EU14, and rules for family members of qualifying British citizens.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

The Implementation provisions in the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules presented to Parliament on 20 July 2018 (Cm 9675) shall be replaced from 1 November 2018 by the following provisions. Appendix EU shall have effect (except for paragraphs EU12 and EU13 and condition 2 in the table in paragraph EU14, and for the entry for ‘family member of a qualifying British citizen’ and for ‘qualifying British citizen’ in the table at Annex 1) in relation to applications made under it before 22 December 2018 by an applicant who is: Page 3 of 34 (a) An EU citizen (but not a British citizen); or (b) A non-EU citizen who has been issued by the Secretary of State with a residence card or permanent residence card under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, on the basis of an application made on or after 6 April 2015, where, at the date of application, the applicant also meets one of the criteria set out in (i) to (xv) below which apply from the following dates: From 1 November 2018: (i) A person employed or engaged by one of the following institutions: Liverpool Hope University; Liverpool John Moores University; or The University of Liverpool; or (ii) A person employed or engaged by one of the following institutions: Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust; Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust; The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; or Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust …

Review method

Official-source atomic repair with two-pass Gemini 3.8 Flash review and a final cross-record publication gate

Other United Kingdom changes operative in 2018

• 2018-01-01The Immigration Act 2014 (Current Accounts) (Compliance &c) Regulations 2016
• 2018-01-15The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017
• 2018-06-30Restrictions on Croatian workers to expire in June
• 2018-07-02The Detention Centre (Amendment) Rules 2018
• 2018-07-24The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2018