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HANSARDDraft Immigration, Nationality and Asylum (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Immigration, Nationality and Asylum (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. Delivering a deal with the EU remains the Government’s…18 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019In a deal situation, an individual who comes here as a student will be perfectly entitled to apply for the EU settled status scheme. They do not have to have been here for five…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019As I said, the hon. Lady is confusing this with the future borders and immigration system, which will enter service in 2021. We are engaging on that threshold over the course of…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The suggestion would be that European temporary leave to remain should be about identity and declaration of any criminal convictions, as with the EU settled status scheme, and…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Gentleman wishes them luck; on my first day as Immigration Minister, I made the point that the more than 1,000 pages of immigration guidance and rules was excessive, and…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019I want to cover some more ground, because I am conscious that if I do not complete my comments, there will be a vote at 7.30 pm without my having responded to many of the points…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Lady is right to pick up that point. Temporary leave to remain is a mechanism that we intend to use in a no-deal situation, not in a deal situation. In a deal situation,…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Gentleman will be very well aware of the figure used: 3.5 million. I am sure that he cannot be unfamiliar with that figure, because we mention it a lot of the time. As I…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Lady may be aware that as part of the future immigration system, I am consulting on specific issues, along with Home Office colleagues and officials across the whole…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019I am very grateful for the Committee’s contributions—not least the suggestion that I am about to eat this elephant one bite at a time. A number of specific issues have been…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019It is important to make this distinction. The five years for which somebody can be outside the country does not relate to the European temporary leave to remain; it relates to the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019I want to make to the hon. Gentleman a really important point of clarification. He has repeatedly used the phrase “indefinite leave to remain”. That is not what we are discussing:…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019It is absolutely the Government’s intention that EEA nationals and Swiss nationals should be able to come through the border in the same way that they do now, using their passport…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019As we have always said, we will take a proportionate approach to EU citizens. It is important that people have the right to be here, but they must apply for temporary leave to…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Gentleman is right to point out that we will be transitioning to the new system, so there will be very light-touch enforcement. It is important to reflect, however, that…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019If the hon. Gentleman stops chuntering from a sedentary position, that will allow me to finish responding to his first intervention. Those citizens will come through the e-gates…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019The hon. Gentleman makes a point. I gently remind him that they receive no stamp in their passport now; they travel through e-gates with no stamp, and the order extends that right.11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019Which is easy for my hon. Friend to say. In a deal scenario, it is certainly intended to be reciprocal, but, with no deal, it is a unilateral offer that we are making, because we…11 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship,…11 Mar 2019HANSARDImmigration RulesMy right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a statement of changes in Immigration Rules (HC 1919). Entrepreneurs and investors play key roles in…07 Mar 2019