Select committee: European Affairs Committee
Recommendation 18
1st Report - Citizens’ Rights
Published 23 Jul 2021
Paragraph 115
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Most EU citizens who applied before the deadline but have not yet received a decision have their rights protected in law until a decision is made. This is welcome, given the apparent backlog in processing applications just before the deadline. We are concerned over the extent to which certificates of application can be used to prove rights in practice (given that these certificates do not confer status), and the uncertainty for those who may be out of scope of the 2016 EEA Regulations. We call on the Government to provide clarity on these points.
From: European Affairs Committee, 1st Report - Citizens’ Rights, paragraph 115, 23 July 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 19 November 2021 (deadline 23 September 2021).