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EU CITIZENS living in the Borders have just days left to apply for the Settlement Scheme which will ensure they can stay in the region.

June 27, 2021 at 11:00 am ADVERTORIAL: EU Settlement Scheme deadline one week away EU Citizens living in Scotland, who have not yet applied to join the EU Settlement Scheme, are being urged to apply now, to avoid missing the deadline of June 30. The latest figures show that as of April 30, 2021, 268,500 applications have been made by people living in Scotland. The remaining number to apply can’t be confirmed, as there is no official data on the number of EU citizens living in Scotland, but it could be a large number. The Scottish Government is now running a new campaign, up until June 30, c...

Since last week that “those who are here illegally can come forward to receive a vaccine,” Ali*, a Pakistani delivery driver in London, has been discussing the so-called amnesty with other migrants in a WhatsApp group. In the chat of more than 80 people – all of whom have precarious immigration status – Ali says that “everyone is scared to go and get the vaccine,” despite the government’s assurances.  These feelings reflect research published recently by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), which found that 43% of the migrants surveyed fear accessing health...

Thousands of EU workers in British care homes risk falling foul of the legal requirement for them to register their status in the UK before a government deadline expires on 30 June, according to a new report published on Monday (25 January). 1 in 3 care workers have not heard of the UK Government’s EU Settled Status Scheme and 1 in 2 do not know about the deadline, according to a survey of over 290 workers in UK care homes. “We are still in the middle of a pandemic, while the EUSS deadline for EU citizens is less than six months away,” said Caitlin Boswell, author of the report for the ...

(Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images) The latest travel bans from the UK into Europe, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, present real challenges for businesses in the final days leading up to the end of the Brexit transition period. How do these travel restrictions relate to Brexit? In two ways: Firstly, these restrictions particularly impact those in financial services who have been working in alternative locations and need to re-establish rights of residence before the transition deadline of 31 December 2020 – including frontier workers, as well as regular business travellers, and those re...