We have been working hard to protect the rights of EU citizens after Britain left the EU - from calling for a declaratory scheme, to campaigning for the Home Office to #LiftTheDeadline on the EU Settlement Scheme. Despite calls from us and other campaigners, the Home Office did not lift the deadline, and as a result, on 1 July 2021, tens or hundreds of thousands of EU citizens lost their right to remain in the UK.
Find out about help and resources available and read more below on our ongoing campaign to reform the immigration system so no one is pushed out, then locked out of status.
Our research showing that as well vulnerable EEA+ citizens, care workers and other key workers – the very people we are relying on to pull us through the COVID crisis – are in real danger of being left behind by the EU Settlement Scheme. Read more
The UK's immigration system, and the Hostile Environment, drive people out of legal status and stoke divisions. But it doesn't have to be this way - take action now Read more
A list of organisations providing help and support to EU nationals (including EEA nationals and non-EEA partners and family members). Read more
We are taking the Home Office to Court over its failure to protect vulnerable people from falling out of status after the EU Settlement Scheme cut off date. (September 2020) Read more
What happens now the EU Settlement Scheme deadline has passed? What should campaigners do next? Read more
Read our briefing on what a post-Brexit settlement for EU treaty rights holders in the UK might look like. (2017) Read more
Our evidence submitted to the ICIBI for his inspection into the EU Settlement Scheme and how it is working for vulnerable groups. (July 2020) Read more
JCWI wrote to the Prime Minister calling on the Government to lift the deadline for the EU Settlement Scheme. (June 2021) Read more
30 organisations working with EU nationals in the UK have written to the Home Secretary calling for changes to protect people from the impacts of Covid-19. Read more
Government statistics released on 12 September show more and more EU nationals being forced to wait for decisions on their Settled Status applications, and being granted the temporary Pre-Settled Status, not Settled Status. The scheme needs urgent reform to avoid becoming another 'Windrush' scandal. Read more
Broken Promises: the EU nationals the Government intends to remove after Brexit. Read more
We set out the problems with the Settled Status scheme, and how these can be resolved. Read more
JCWI EU Settlement Scheme FAQs (summer 2019) Read more