PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Migrant Workers: Veterinary Medicine (4 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 29 November 2017 to Question 115507, if the Government will take steps to ensure that the non-UK EU veterinarians working in the UK who arrived in the UK fewer than five years ago will be allowed to remain and work after the UK has left the EU.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Government has proposed that those EU citizens who are resident in the UK before the specified date but do not have five years’ continuous residence will be able to obtain temporary status to remain resident in the UK until they have accumulated five years, after which they will be eligible to apply for settled status.

There will be a two year period after the UK’s withdrawal for them to make an application during which their residence rights in the UK will be protected.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
7 December 2017