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<p>The Government’s policy paper (Cm 9464), which was laid before Parliament on 26
June, proposes that EU citizens who arrive in the UK before the specified date, have
five years’ continuous residence and who do not breach the requirements in relation
to criminality, public policy and public security, will be able to apply for UK settled
status.</p><p>Being granted settled status will mean EU citizens will be free to reside
in any capacity and undertake any lawful activity. We also intend to treat EU citizens
with settled status in the same way as if they were UK citizens for the purposes of
education, benefits and pensions.</p><p>The Government undertakes to treat EU citizens
who were resident in the UK before the specified date, according to the principles
set out in the policy paper in the expectation that the EU will offer reciprocal treatment
for UK nationals resident in its member states.</p><p>Full details of the Government’s
proposal are in the policy paper ‘Safeguarding the position of EU citizens in the
UK and UK nationals in the EU’, which is available at the following link:</p><p>//www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-the-position-of-eu-citizens-in-the-uk-and-uk-nationals-in-the-eu</p>
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