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MPs call on Johnson to lift EU settlement scheme deadline or risk tens of thousands becoming undocumented

MORE than 50 parliamentarians are calling on Boris Johnson to urgently lift the EU settlement scheme deadline next month or risk tens of thousands of citizens from the bloc becoming undocumented. 

The group of cross-party MPs and peers argue that the Home Office’s outreach campaign has failed to reach sufficient numbers of EU citizens during the pandemic, which has disrupted support services. 

In a letter to the Prime Minister today, the group warned that failure to lift the fast-approaching deadline for EU citizens to apply for settled status in Britain on June 30 could result in significant numbers of people being stripped of their right to stay in the country.  

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