EU

Settlement
Scheme
Application guide

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If you’re an EU citizen, you and your family can apply to the EU
Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021.
The deadline for applying is 30 June 2021.
This guide has been published to support you in making an application. It has been divided into
eight sections:

1. Documents required for your application

2. Completing the Identity section of the application using the EU Exit: ID document App

3. Continuing your application after using the EU Exit: ID document App

4. Application type section of the application

5. Residence in the UK section of the application

6. Criminal convictions section of the application

7. Submitting your EU Settlement Scheme application

8. Application processing time and what you receive if you are successful

Further support
If you need any further support with your application, please contact:

• Staff - please contact Tracy Tobin,

E: [email protected]
T: 0 1234 750111 extn: 2346
• Students - please contact Student Immigration and Funding,
E: [email protected]
T: +44 (0)1234 752970
+44 (0)1234 758181
+44 (0)1234 754901

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 Documents required for
1 your application
• A valid passport or national identity card
• Any of the following:
- letter from Cranfield University confirming your registration and study in the UK
- bank statement showing payments received or spending in the UK
- payslip for a UK-based job
- water, gas or electricity bill showing a UK address
- landline or mobile telephone, TV or internet bill showing a UK address
- domestic bill, such as for home repairs, vet’s services or insurance, and evidence of payment
- card or letter from GP, hospital or other healthcare professional confirming appointments have been made
or attended
- letter from a government department, public service or charity that show you have dealt with them on a
particular date or for a particular period (for example Job Centre Plus or Citizens Advice)
- passport stamp confirming entry at the UK border
- used travel ticket confirming you have entered the UK from another country
- invoice for work you have done in the UK and evidence of payment

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 Completing the Identity section
2 of the application using the EU
Exit: ID document App

The first step is to download the EU Exit: ID Document Check app. This
works on most modern Android smartphones and some iPhones.

The app will ask you for a phone number and email address.

There are then four steps:

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Scan passport (or ID card) Put phone on passport Scan face Photograph face

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 Top tips
If you are using the app by going to an ID scanner location, you must attend the appointment before
completing the online form. If you complete the online form before attending the appointment, you will
have no choice but sending your identity document to the Home Office by post.

Continuing your application

3 after using the EU Exit: ID
document App

Return to the UK government website and follow links to complete

your application.
Click on Start now.

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Then click on “Log in” if you have already used the app to prove your identity.

Click on the identity document that you have used with the app to check your identity and click continue.

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Enter your identity document details and click continue. The following example is using a passport (but you may
have used your national identity card or biometric residence permit).

Enter your date of birth and click continue.

Choose to confirm who you are by either having a code sent as an SMS to your mobile or to your email and click
continue.

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Input the code and click continue.

After logging in, the applicant sees a page that looks like this:

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 4 Application type section

Tick the answer that applies to you and click continue.

If you answer yes then there will be two more follow up questions, as follows below. If you answer no then there will
not be any follow up questions.

Enter your other country of nationality and click continue.

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Click the answer that applies to you and click continue. If you answer no, provide details and click continue.

Previous nationalities - tick the answer that applies to you and click continue.

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Permanent Residence Card - If you have been in the UK for less than 5 years then it is highly likely your answer to
this question will be no. Click continue.

If you answered yes to the question on the Permanent Residence Card, you should provide the card number or if you
don’t have the card tick the box below and click continue.

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Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) - If you have ILR choose yes then provide details. If not, choose no and click
continue.

If you have answered yes to the ILR question, provide details and click continue.

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Check your answers and make any changes, where necessary, before progressing to the next step. Once happy with
all the answers, click continue.

Click continue then you will be taken back to the main application page.

5 Residence in the UK section

Click on Residence in the UK.

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Provide your UK address.

Tick the answer that applies to you and click continue.

If you have answered yes to the “other names” question, provide details and click continue.

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If you have a National Insurance Number (NINo) answer yes to this question, otherwise answer no and click continue.

If you have been working within the last six months, the government can use your NINo to establish your residence
for Pre-Settled status, you might not need to provide other evidence of your residency at this point.

If you have been working in the UK continuously for the last five years, the government can use your NINo to
establish your residence for Settled Status without any further evidence required.

If your NINo does not confirm five years of work, you will be considered for Pre-Settled status. If you believe this is
incorrect, you can challenge this later in the application process before finalising. If you have evidence of being in
the UK for more than 5 years then you might want to submit these in support of your application at the same time
you make your application.

If you haven’t applied for a NINo because you haven’t been working you will be able to use other evidence to show
residency in the UK (for example a registration letter from Cranfield, your flight boarding pass, etc).

5.5. Check your answers and make any changes, where necessary, before progressing to the next step. Once happy
with all the answers, click continue and then you will be taken back to the main application page.

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 6 Criminal convictions section

Click on Criminal convictions.

Click the answer that applies to you and click continue. If you are not sure what offences you need to declare, click
on Read the guidance.

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If you answered yes to the question, there will be some follow up questions. Click the answer that applies to you
and click continue.

If you answer yes to the above, there will be further follow up questions.

If you answer no then you will be taken to the follow up questions below. Click the answer that applies to you and
click continue. Provide details where required.

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Click the answer that applies to you and click continue.

If you answer yes to the above, there will be further follow up questions.

If you answer no then you will be taken to the follow up questions below. Click the answer that applies to you and
click continue.

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Check your answers and make any changes, where necessary, before progressing to the next step. Once happy with
all the answers, click continue and then you will be taken back to the main application page.

At this point, you still have a chance to check all your answers and make any amendments.

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 7 Submitting your application

If you are happy to proceed then click “Confirm and continue”.

You will then be taken to security questions page. Choose one option from each of the three sets of security
questions, provide answers and click continue.

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Click the answer that applies to you in the declaration screen and click continue.

Read the information and click continue.

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Make sure that you have the relevant evidence of your presence in the UK on your device to upload and click
continue.

Click on “Upload evidence”.

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If you are using a Cranfield University letter then you can tick “A single date” and provide the date on the letter. This
is usually the case for applicants applying for pre-settled status.

If you have been in the UK for more than 5 years and you are applying for settled status, then some of your
documents might have a date range. Enter the month and year and click continue.

Once you have finished uploading your documents and assigning dates to it, click “Go back to complete your
application”.

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Click continue.

To submit your application, click “Confirm and submit”.

Once you have completed the application, you will receive a certificate of application which will contain your
application number.

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 Application processing time
8 and confirmation of status
Application processing time
Usually it takes around five working days for complete applications to be processed if no further information is
required, but it can take up to a month (paper applications could take longer). An application is likely to take longer
than a month to process if:

• the caseworker needs to request more information on a case

• an applicant has a relevant criminal record.

Confirmation of status
Once you have been granted pre-settled or settled status you can still access your application portal and through
this can change any of your information. Importantly you can click to share the status with (put in the details of)
an employer/ landlord who can then see your name, photo and status (without seeing other details like nationality,
date of birth etc.). There will be an equivalent portal created for educational institutions to see the status of their
students.

You will not get a physical document unless you are a non-EU family member and don’t already have a biometric
residence document.

If you are unsuccessful you:

• may be able to apply for an administrative review of the decision; and/or

• you can also appeal to an independent immigration tribunal if you applied under the EU settlement scheme
after 11pm (GMT) on 31 January 2020; and/or
• can reapply (up until the scheme’s deadline).

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