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For your own safety please check the latest guidance about COVID-19 from NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government and if you have coronavirus symptoms please go to this NHS page.

The Scottish Government has published a Framework for decision making regarding and a Routemap for lifting the lockdown restrictions.

Please remember about your mental health during the self-isolation time. Learn how to manage your anxiety from the Very Well Mind website.

If you need support or would like to provide support for people in need, look for your local volunteering group here.

On this Government website, you can also learn how to get support during the coronavirus lockdown if you’re a migrant living in the UK.

 

 

The Scottish Government has published a Covid-19 Routemap explaining different phases of easing the restrictions and detailed recommendations for each of the phases.

You can read the full document here.

The newest statement from the Home Office about the impact of Coronavirus on EU Settlement Scheme services:

  • The Settlement Resolution Centre is now fully reopened for both phone and email queries.
  • The postal route for submitting identity evidence is also reopened.
  • The ID document scanner locations are still suspended at this time following the latest public health guidance to protect staff but are due to reopen soon as well.
  • Individuals can still use the “EU Exit ID Document check app” to complete the identity stage of their application.

You can download our comprehensive guide to the EU Settlement Scheme here.

If you do not have access to an Android phone, but you have biometric chip in your documents, you can scan them in a number of locations in Scotland. Full list on the gov.uk website here.

If the automated checks of residence for the Settled Status do not work in you case, you can provide scanned copies of some accepted documents. You can find the full list on the gov.uk website here.

Use this link to find an adviser close to your location who can help you with your EUSS application FREE of charge. Introduce your location or postcode, select ‘Type of advice L1 Initial Case’ and ‘Not Fee Charging’ and look in the list for organisations with ‘Advice: Level of advice 1 | Immigration advice limited to the EU Settlement Scheme’.

The EU Citizens’ Rights website has a very comprehensive database of immigration advisers, mental health service providers, support for the vulnerable, citizens’ & community advice, EU/EEA/Swiss embassies and consulates, law centres, assisted digital services and passport/ID locations. Find the ones near you using your post code.

The Home Office is regularly publishing the statistics of EU Settlement Scheme applications.

You can see the latest statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics

Latest News

EU citizens rights factsheets and new EU Settlement Scheme statistics
19.06.2020
A series of very useful factsheets created by Just Rights Scotland, explaining rights to work, study, vote, public healthcare, housing, and access to public funds have been added to our website in Your Rights section.

The Home Office has also released the latest figures on EU Settlement Scheme applications and they appear to be the last monthly statistics in this form as the Home Office aims to “simplify” future monthly data bulletins to “allow for the timelier release of high-level figures” but “more detailed statistics” would still be made available every quarter.

Covid-19 Routemap and EU Settlement Scheme statistics
21.05.2020
The Scottish Government published today a document with the Covid-19 Routemap explaining different phases of easing the restrictions.

The latest EU Settlement Scheme statistics were also published today by the Home Office. Only 67 300 applications have been received in April 2020 (3 900 in Scotland). It is the lowest number since the introduction of the Scheme in March 2019.

More Online Information Sessions in different languages
06.05.2020
From mid-May we are launching more Online Information Sessions delivered by our trained volunteers in multiple European languages. Four new sessions has been confirmed so far: Polish on 13.05, Romanian on 19.05, Greek on 26.05 and Spanish on 02.06.

More information about our events can be found on our events page.

On-line briefings on EU citizens’ rights from 29 April until mid-May

27.04.2020
Citizens’ Rights Project have organised a series of free on-line seminars on EU citizens’ rights. The webinars will focus mainly on the ‘Settled Status’ scheme under which EU citizens currently in the UK can get a permanent right to stay in the country. The series of five webinars will run from 29 April until mid-May, and will feature a range of legal and other experts. Each webinar will run for an hour, with time for Q & A.

The first seminar, at 1600 on 29 April will look at the overall picture of “EU citizens’ rights in the UK under the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement”. The speaker will be advocate, Mark Lazarowicz, who has represented EU citizens in a number of cases involving citizens’ rights. You can book your space here.

Visit our events page to check the dates and speakers of the next on-line seminars.

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