If you haven't applied to the EU Settlement Scheme yet, what you need to do depends on whether you have a biometric residence permit or visa. There might be other good reasons why you couldn’t apply on time. When you make a late application, you should say what your reasons are and try to include evidence to show why you’re making a late application. You For various reasons, nationals of certain non-EU countries stay for longer in the UK than others. Among non-EU citizens who received family visas in 2014, for example, 82% of Syrians and 47% of Indians had gained settlement five years later, compared to 34% of Americans and 29% of Australians. Among work visa recipients, 31% of Pakistanis, 20% of Chinese and only 7% of Americans and 4% of Australians had been granted settlement.

Find out more about what you need to apply for pre-settled status. If you retired or had to stop working have been granted pre-settled status, and be able to show that the person of Northern Ireland is in an equivalent position to an EEA or Swiss citizen who is exercising their Treaty rights before the end of the transition period - they must be the equivalent of a 'qualified person' or a person with a right of permanent residence under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 even though those Regulations do not apply to them because they hold British citizenship; or We would stroll over to take a look at the spectacle of our former building-turned-Egyptian-mummy and our past days disappearing in a cloud of dust. We’d feel a slight pang of regret as well: all the doors and windows had been pulled out, and what was left was about to depart into the universe. After those dates, such family members returning to or coming to the UK will need to apply for immigration status under another category of the Immigration Rules, unless they are exempt from immigration control. Confirming lawful residence

A spouse, civil partner or unmarried partner (who has been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for a minimum of 2 years) of a person who is a British citizen or settled in the UK who applies to come to live with that person in the UK, will normally be granted a period of leave to enter for up to 33 months and must apply for leave to remain no more than 28 days before their leave to enter expires. This means that if you were born on or after 1 July 2021 you did not automatically have British citizenship, in most cases. Old photographs can show you how your building has changed over time. The Historic England Archive has a large collection of historic photographs of buildings. You may also find images of buildings at local record offices. These offices will also hold archived copies of local newspapers, which can provide useful contextual evidence. From 6 April 2015, unless an exemption or waiver applies, the applicant for leave to enter or remain in the UK for 6 months or more must pay the immigration health surcharge ("surcharge") to cover this period of time. The applicant will then be entitled to free NHS hospital treatment while their visa remains valid (with the exception of assisted conception services). Those who apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain ( ILR) are not required to pay the surcharge. If granted ILR the applicant would be able to pass the ordinary residence test. Those granted leave to enter or remain in this way prior to 6 April 2015, but without ILR, are likely to be exempt from charge under transitional arrangements (see chapter 5 of the guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations, "the main guidance"). This will cover both those already living here and a small number of people arriving after 6 April 2015 who applied for leave to enter or remain here before this date.

However, EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members who do not have indefinite leave to enter or remain are capable of being considered ordinarily resident if: Enclosure Maps: Enclosure maps and awards may not show individual buildings, but they can show land ownership, boundaries and rights of way. They usually date from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Most enclosure maps are held at local record offices; an electronic catalogue is also available. You’re a British citizen automatically if when you were born at least one of your parents was living in the UK and had any of the following:You can include time you’ve spent on any other visas which lead to indefinite leave to remain. You must have had a visa based on your private life for at least one year on the day you apply. Knowledge of language and life in the UK Otherwise you can apply for indefinite leave to remain on the basis of your private life if all of the following are true: A gray sheet begins to flap. It stops flapping and grows darker. It’s growing heavier, it’s coming down, it covers everything and lies there silently. Can it be that no one would have bothered to tell me these old tales if I hadn’t arrived there at that very moment? When the boss was there, and she was there, and I was there too? This is how moments come together. Otherwise they disappear. You can make a late application to the EU Settlement Scheme if you couldn’t apply on time for practical or ‘compassionate’ reasons. It will help if you have evidence to show why you couldn’t apply on time.

The arrangements for those with "Surinder Singh" rights, who are also not protected by the Withdrawal Agreements, are treated differently, as follows: Decisions on ordinary residence are a matter for the relevant body. For guidance on establishing whether someone is lawfully resident in the UK, please see the confirming lawful residence section. Other persons coming to temporarily reside in the UK under the immigration rules, such as those here for the purposes of refugee family reunion, elderly dependent relatives and other dependents coming for settlement, will either pay the surcharge or be exempt from that requirement, and for that reason will be entitled to free NHS hospital treatment while their visa, leave to remain or enter remains valid. Derivative rights of residence Applicants to the EUSS will either be granted pre-settled (limited leave to enter or remain) or settled (indefinite leave to enter or remain) status.Appendix Student, Appendix Child Student, and Appendix Short-term Student (English language) of the Immigration Rules set out further requirements for students coming to the UK from EEA or Swiss and third countries. ↩ British citizens" have an automatic right of abode in the UK. A British citizen who has been living abroad, or who is migrating to the UK for the first time, can therefore pass the ordinary residence test upon taking up settled residence in the UK. British citizens who are no longer living and settled in the UK cannot be said to be ordinarily resident in the UK. Family members of British citizens or settled persons You might also be able to make a late application for compassionate reasons. This might be because you: Family members of UK citizens who have returned from the EEA or Switzerland by 31 December 2020 have until 30 June 2021 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. Some studies have used the Labour Force Survey or Annual Population Survey to examine emigration patterns, by looking at how the size of a given cohort of migrants (e.g. those arriving in 2006) changes over time (e.g. how many are still living here in 2007, 2008, and so forth). For example, Migration Watch (2017) uses the LFS to estimate how many migrants arriving from 2008-2014 were still in the UK in 2010-2016. For non-EU citizens, the patterns are roughly as expected: the estimated size of a given year-of-arrival cohort decreases over time, presumably due to emigration. For EU citizens, however, the cohort sizes mostly do not decrease and in some cases actually increase over time. This is quite different from the picture provided by IPS data, which show EU national emigration of 75,000-140,000 per year since 2008. While one should not expect a perfect match between the two data sources due to differences in measurement and methodology, the difference between the two results—one of which suggests substantial EU emigration and one of which does not—is surprising and makes it difficult to make conclusive statements about what share of EU citizens emigrate.