The number of staff the Home Office intends to recruit to register the 3 million EU nationals in Britain in the run-up to Brexit means each caseworker will have to take 100 decisions a day, an official watchdog has warned. David Bolt, the chief inspector of borders and immigration, told MPs on Tuesday that an extra 500 staff being recruited to register EU nationals already living in Britain would face severe pressure. “That’s a lot of decisions, even with a light touch,” he told them. The immigration minister, Brandon Lewis, told MPs last week that the extra 1,200 staff would be used only partly to register EU nationals. He said it would only work if every applicant had five years’ worth of P60 earnings forms proving that they meet the residency requirement.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 12:33 UTC