All European Union (EU) nationals who are living in the UK will be allowed to stay in the country after Britain leaves the economic bloc, according to a media report on Saturday.
The UK Home Office has discovered as part of internal research that five in six could not legally be deported, The Daily Telegraph claims. There are around 3.6 million EU citizens living in the UK, more than 80 per cent of whom will have permanent residency rights by the time Britain leaves the union in early 2019, official research has concluded.
The remainder — more than 6,00,000 people — will be offered an amnesty, with several Cabinet Ministers telling the newspaper that those citizens will be offered the right to stay permanently, in a policy that may prove controversial.