Report analysis on late applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme supported by Citizens Rights Project advisers [January 2023]
Citizens Rights Project – Our experience providing EU Settlement Scheme outreach and support after the deadline [August 2022]
In July 2020, Citizens Rights Project produced the document “EU Settlement Scheme: Citizen Report”1, to respond to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) call for evidence to make recommendations to the Home Secretary regarding the EU Settlement Scheme overall governance, efficiency and communication.
This report looks back to that document to analyse whether the issues identified, and the recommendations made are still relevant today.
A physical proof for EU citizens with pre-settled or settled status: findings of the survey [April 2022]
Manifiesto conjunto sobre la pérdida de derechos tras el Brexit [Nov 2021]
The Citizens Rights Project has joined other Scottish civil society organisations in Scotland to help in the collation of questions for UK and Scottish Government after UK withdrawal from the European Union. In particular, we have helped with questions related to the protection of EU citizens.
This report provides a useful summary of these key concerns that should inform future work amongst, and with, Scottish civil society on the impacts of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
It was coordinated and written by Human Rights Consortium Scotland and the Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE) as part of their partnership Civil Society Brexit Project, funded by The Legal Education Foundation.
Issues with the EU Settlement Scheme and EU citizens’ rights report [June 2021]
A report about the difficulties and issues that EU citizens could face after the deadline to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme on June 30, 2021.
EU citizens’ access to welfare benefits and pensions [March 2021]
Research briefing on access to welfare benefits and pensions for EU citizens with pre-settled and settled status prepared by Nina Miller Westoby, a socio-legal researcher based at the University of Glasgow.
This paper addresses a number of questions relating to the welfare benefits and pension entitlements of European Union citizens who began living in Scotland (or the UK) before the end of the transition period (31 December 2020) and who continue to live here. The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) governs the rights of this group of Union citizens.
We submitted the report EU Settlement Scheme: Citizen Report to the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) at the end of July 2020, in response to their “call for evidence”, which will make recommendations to the Home Secretary Regarding the EUSS overall governance, efficiency and communication.
We investigated the experiences of EU nationals when applying for the EUSS and reported on our findings, as wells as concerns, recommendations and needs when raising awareness online and face-to-face around Scotland, among citizens, but also representatives, local authorities and third sector organisations.
This report describes the findings of that exercise, which were obtained via a combination of direct communication and an online survey ‘Let’s Settle This’. It gives valuable insight into how participants have experience the EUSS, some of whom are vulnerable or have faced challenges due to a lack of service provision or awareness of those challenges.
The insights from this paper derive from the work undertaken by the Citizens Rights Project in Scotland between February 2018 and April 2019.
The Citizens Rights Project was launched in February 2018 and was initially funded by the European Commission Representation in Scotland (February-May and September-October 2018), and next by the Scottish Government (September-December 2018). The project aims at raising awareness of EU citizens’ rights after Brexit and delivers information and advice on these through public events in various parts of Scotland.
What support do EU citizens in Scotland need to deal with Brexit? What challenges related to Brexit do they and those working with them currently face? To what extent are they aware of their rights post-Brexit? What longer term challenges but also opportunities do EU Citizens in Scotland expect in result of Brexit?
To help answer these questions we launched a research project. It involved community consultations and focus group discussions on issues raised by Brexit and the resultant longer term opportunities and challenges for EU27 citizens in Scotland. The preliminary report was presented to central and local government, other key decisions makers, and to Scotland’s civic society more generally, who contributed to the research on an event on 10.12.2018 in Edinburgh.
The study was led by Dr. Paulina Trevena, an experienced researcher who specialises in EU migration to the UK and Scotland.
You can find the report here: Brexit and EU citizens’ in Scotland: Impacts, challenges and support needs.
Through our project, we hope to raise awareness of issues arising as a result of Brexit for EU27 citizens in Scotland.
Read the press release about the report