{"id":216165,"date":"2017-12-12T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=216165"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:32:46","slug":"changes-to-uk-emigration-rule-you-need-to-know-about-following-the-latest-brexit-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/216165\/changes-to-uk-emigration-rule-you-need-to-know-about-following-the-latest-brexit-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to UK emigration rules you need to know about following the latest Brexit talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the latest round of negotiations, there seems to be more certainty for persons worried about their rights in the UK and EU after Brexit, according to emigration consultants, Breytenbachs.<\/p>\n<p>The consultancy released an analysis on the UK government&#8217;s 8 December press statement on the effects of Brexit on foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agreement will basically assure that EU citizens living lawfully in the UK, and UK citizens living lawfully in the EU by <strong>29 March 2019<\/strong> will be able to stay and enjoy broadly the same rights and benefits as they do now,&#8221; Breytenbachs said.<\/p>\n<p>Other important notes in the statement include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Close family members will be able to join after the UK has left the EU<\/strong>. This includes spouses, unmarried partners, children, grandchildren, dependent parents and grandparents. Children born or adopted outside of the UK after the 29 March 2019 will also be covered.<\/li>\n<li>People will be able to be <strong>absent from the UK for up to five years without losing settled status<\/strong>, more than double the level of absence allowed under current EU law. There will be the same reciprocal protection for UK nationals living in the EU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professional qualifications<\/strong> (e.g. doctors and architects) will continue to be recognised where these are obtained before the date of the UK\u2019s departure from the EU.<\/li>\n<li>It will be easy to apply for settled status and there will be a full right of appeal.<\/li>\n<li>Those EU citizens who already hold a valid Permanent Residence document will be able to<strong> have their status converted to settled status free of charge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This agreement also provides certainty on healthcare, pensions and other benefits. It will mean that EU citizens who have paid into the UK system can b<strong>enefit from what they\u2019ve already put in and continue to benefit from existing coordination rules<\/strong> for future contributions. Those covered by the agreement will be able to continue to receive healthcare as they do now.<\/li>\n<li>There will be a transparent, smooth and streamlined process to enable EU citizens to apply for settled status starting in <strong>the latter half of next year for two years after the UK leaves the EU \u2013 from 2018 to 2021.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/205728\/where-south-africans-are-looking-to-emigrate-and-how-to-get-to-the-us-on-the-cheap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Where South Africans are looking to emigrate \u2013 and how to get to the US on the cheap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the latest round of negotiations, there seems to be more certainty for persons worried about their rights in the UK and EU after Brexit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[12545,26],"class_list":["post-216165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-breytenbachs","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216179,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216165\/revisions\/216179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}