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Verhofstadt met with Brexit minister Stephen Barclay on Thursday and said he had been given assurances there would be a grace period for those who have not applied for the UK’s “settled status” scheme by the June 2021 deadline.
“What will happen for those people even after the grace period? Well there will be no automatic deportation,” Verhofstadt told BBC.
“After the grace period they will have a possibility to apply, giving the grounds why it was not possible to do it within the normal procedures.”
A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed there would be no automatic deportation. [...]