U.K. Lets Thousands Apply to Remain Long After Brexit Cutoff
- Home office receives about 65,000 applications just in October
- EU citizens are finding they lack papers as travel resumes
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Tens of thousands of European Union citizens are still applying to remain in the U.K. months after the government’s post-Brexit deadline, a sign that many businesses may be employing people without so-called settled status.
Last month alone, the British Home Office received almost 65,000 applications from EU citizens to stay in the country, according to Bloomberg calculations from official data. That brings the total received since the June 30 deadline to more than 236,000.