Providing new information and evidence of your pre-settled or settled status

After you apply for the EU Settlement Scheme, the Home Office will send you an email informing you of your status. This is referred to as your decision letter.

Learn what you should do if you disagree with the decision.

If you've applied to the EU Settlement Scheme, you can still live and work in the UK while you wait for a decision. In the UK, you can prove your rights by using both:

• your passport or national identification card

• your EU Settlement Scheme application certificate, which you should have received via email when you applied

Your application certificate may have been emailed to you or may be available in your online account, depending on when you applied. If your certificate is available online, you can obtain a share code from GOV.UK.

To confirm your right to work, your employer will need to use the Employer Checking Service.

Viewing your current status

After receiving your decision letter, you can check your pre-settled or settled status on GOV.UK. UK

If you are from the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you will not receive a card indicating whether you are pre-settled or settled; your status is only available online.

Viewing the status of your child

Your child will have an online status. To check your child's status on GOV, click here. You'll need the email address or phone number you used when you applied to the UK.

Demonstrating your legal right to work or rent

You can get a share code from GOV.UK to show someone your status. When you get the code, it's a good idea to print or write it down.

You can give your share code to anyone who needs to know your status, such as a landlord or an employer.

This code is only valid for 30 days; if it is not used within that time, you must obtain a new one. Your decision letter is not evidence of your current status.  

If you provide a share code, landlords, employers, and local governments can check your status online.

If your employer or landlord checked your status before July 1, 2021 and wants to do it again, it could be considered discrimination - unless they do it for all of their employees or everyone who rents from them. Talk to an adviser if you think you've been discriminated against

If you believe the Home Office made a mistake regarding your immigration status,

You can use a form to notify them if they have incorrect information, such as if it is out of date. Find out how to tell the Home Office they’ve got the wrong information about your status on GOV.UK

Obtaining proof of your right to enter the United Kingdom

What you need to show is determined by your citizenship.

If you are a citizen of the EU, EEA, or Switzerland

When you enter the UK, you must show an identity document that is linked to your online status, such as your passport or national identity card.

If you enter the UK with your passport, you can scan it yourself at airport 'eGates.' You must show your identity card to an immigration officer if you use it.

On GOV.UK, you can check or change the identity document associated with your status.

When you were granted pre-settled or settled status, you may have received an EU Settlement Scheme biometric residence card. If you have one, make sure you bring it with you when you travel because you will need it to enter the United Kingdom.

If you do not have an EU Settlement Scheme biometric residence card, the rules are as follows:

• an EEA biometric residence card

• a residence permit that is biometric

Demonstrating your eligibility to receive benefits

What you must do is determined by whether you are settled or pre-settled.

The DWP may request proof of your pre-settled or settled status by adding a message to the journal section of your online account. You should check your journal on a regular basis to ensure that you do not miss any messages.

You can provide evidence to the DWP by providing your share code (which you can obtain from GOV.UK).

If the DWP requests proof of your status, you must provide it within one month. If you miss the one-month deadline, your payments may be suspended.  

If your payments are stopped and you continue to fail to provide the DWP with proof of your status, you may be required to reapply for Universal Credit.

You must update your online status if:

• If your passport expires, you must renew or replace the identity document you used to apply.

• you change your name, such as when you marry

• If you change your address, phone number, or email address, your contact information must be updated so that you can view or share your status.

• you want to change or add another identity document

You may want to add another identity document so you can travel with it, such as if you applied with your national ID card but want to travel with your passport.

When you update your status online, you must upload a picture of your identity document to add or change it. It will be a few weeks before you can log in with your new identity document details; keep your old one handy until then.  

When you add a new identity document to your online status, you will be required to sign in with that identity document in the future.

Don't be concerned if you can't find your old ID on your account. It remains, but the system may only display the most recent one you've added.

GOV.UK allows you to update your online status.

If you haven't received confirmation within four weeks of updating your online status, contact the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre.

Changing the status from pre-settled to settled

When you are eligible, you can apply to change your status from pre-settled to settled. Learn how to change your status to settled.

If you are unable to access your online status

If you do any of the following, you may be unable to access your online status:

• You no longer have access to the email address or phone number you used to set up the account.

• changed the passport or identification document in your account

You can contact the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre, and they will be able to recover your account and provide you with your status.