Settled status: new guidance allows for extensive Covid related absences
Manuela Travaglini illustrates the news regarding Settled status from her ‘Legally Blog‘ in the newspaper la Repubblica.
The Home Office has now published replacement EU Settlement scheme guidance with which has amended the previous and more strict interpretation on how absences from the UK will be considered: Covid-19 related absences can also count as an important reason, meaning that they won’t break the continuous residence.
Specifically, the new guidance covers scenarios where:
i) there’s a Covid-19 related absence of up to 12 months;
ii) there’s an absence for an important reason that exceeds 12 months;
iii) there’s 2 absences for important reasons, which are now allowed, as long as one of these absences is because of Covid-19.
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