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Each child must have their own application. You can apply for your child or they can apply for themselves.

Eligibility

Your child may be eligible for settled or pre-settled status if they are:

• under 21, or they were under 21 when they got pre-settled status and they want to switch to settled status
• from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein - or you, or your spouse or civil partner, are

Although the deadline for applications for most people was 30 June 2021, you can still apply for your child - or they can apply for themselves - if you lived in the UK by 31 December 2020.

You must apply within 90 days of either:聽

• your child being born or adopted in the UK
• the date your child first arrived in the UK after 31 December 2020

If your child was born in the UK but is not a British citizen, they will still need to apply. You can check if they鈥檙e a British citizen if you鈥檙e not sure.

What documents you鈥檒l need

You鈥檒l need proof of:

• your child鈥檚 identity - you can use the same types of documents for proving your own identity, for example a passport or biometric residence card (if it has not expired)
• your relationship to your child
• your pre-settled or settled status - or that you鈥檙e an Irish citizen, eligible British citizen, an eligible person of Northern Ireland or exempt from immigration control
• when your child was born or adopted - for example a birth certificate or adoption order
• when your child started living here, if they started living in the UK by 31 December 2020
• your child鈥檚 continuous residence

If your child started living in the UK by 31 December 2020, you鈥檒l need evidence that shows they were here in the last 6 months of 2020.

Check what evidence you can use to show when your child started living in the UK, and that they鈥檝e continued to live here.

If you have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme

When you apply for your child you can 鈥榣ink鈥� their application to yours. This means that if your own application is successful, your child will usually get the same status as you.

To do this, select the option to apply 鈥榰sing your parent鈥檚 residence鈥�, then enter your application number. You will need to do this for each child you apply for.

You can use your own email address in the application if your child does not have one.

You can apply for your child any time after you鈥檝e made your own application - you do not need to wait for a decision.

If you have not applied to the EU Settlement Scheme

If you鈥檙e eligible for the scheme, but did not apply by the deadline, you may still be able to apply. You鈥檒l need to show 鈥榬easonable grounds鈥� for why you鈥檙e applying now, and not before the deadline or in the time since the deadline passed.

If you鈥檙e not eligible for the scheme but your child is, you can still apply for them. For example, if they live in the UK and you do not.

If your child does not have 5 years鈥� continuous residence

If your child does not have 5 years鈥� continuous residence when they apply, they鈥檒l usually get pre-settled status.

If you鈥檝e already been granted settled status, your child will be granted it too.

You can apply to change your child鈥檚 status from pre-settled to settled status once they鈥檝e reached 5 years鈥� continuous residence or you鈥檝e been granted settled status.

If you鈥檙e an Irish citizen

You do not need to apply for settled or pre-settled status if you鈥檙e an Irish citizen who was living in the UK by 31 December 2020, but you can choose to do so.

If you apply, your children will also need their own application unless they have:

• Irish citizenship
• British citizenship
• dual British and Irish citizenship

If you鈥檙e an Irish citizen and your child is not a British citizen, they鈥檒l be eligible for either:

• the same status that you could get, based on how long you鈥檝e lived in the UK
• settled or pre-settled status, based on their own residence

This also applies if you鈥檙e from Northern Ireland and have Irish, British or dual British and Irish citizenship, and your child does not have Irish, British or dual citizenship.

How to apply

Apply online for the EU Settlement Scheme.