All Articles: Worker Registration Scheme
Supreme Court finds UK breached residence rights of hundreds of thousands of EU citizens
The Supreme Court has today dismissed the Home Office appeal in the case of Gubeladze [2019] UKSC 31. The judgment affects hundreds of thousands of EU citizens from the so-called Accession Eight (or “A8”) countries that joined the EU in ...
19th June 2019Court of Justice upholds UK approach to Worker Registration Scheme for EU nationals
Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the UK’s approach to the Worker Registration Scheme in force between 2004 and 2011 for citizens of new EU countries. The case is C-618/16 Prefeta v UK. The judgment in effect endorses ...
17th September 2018Worker Registration Scheme extension unlawful, Court of Appeal confirms
In a decision of 7 November 2017, the Court of Appeal unanimously found, yet again, that the extension of the Worker Registration Scheme from 1 May 2009 to 30 April 2011 was unlawful and incompatible with EU law. The case is Secretary of State for Wor ...
9th November 2017Worker Registration Scheme causing problems with British citizenship for some children
Some worrying news from The Guardian: UK citizenship has been given to the children of eastern Europeans living in Britain without the proper paperwork, the Guardian has learned. The affected families come from countries including Poland and the Czech ...
1st July 2016