Brexit visa could mean 140 years’ work

9 years ago - Published in Finance, Fundamental Analysis

Brexit might make its effects felt also in the UK bureaucracy: if all European citizens who live, study and work in Britain would appear to ask for a residence visa, there would be a clogging equal to work for 140 years dispose of all the amount of paperwork. The administrative effects could be very serious: it is the result of a study by the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, as reports the Financial Times.

The "right" to residence, depending on the outcome of the referendum may be required for more than 3.5 million people and since, at the time, the Ministry of Interior English is no more than 25 thousand practices a year, the race to seen could create an unprecedented bureaucratic gridlock, since they would be disposed of a file number 140 times higher than average.

"In fact, there are still several issues to be resolved, even about those who must go to apply for a visa and how it should get," Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory, admitted. Choices that will have to be taken in the short, both because the EU asked in London to start as soon as possible negotiations to determine the standards for Brexit, and because the same British government wants to avoid a possible "escape" of European and promised to want to protect the status of migrants from who has long been present in the country.

This seems very complicated: the document regulating visa applications is a dossier of 85 pages, but despite this – supports the Migration Observatory – students (about 471mila), pensioners, inactive people and the self-employed (over 314mila ) might have problems to prove how old they are resident in the UK.

The Home Affairs Committee said uncertainty over Britain’s looming exit from the EU will trigger a last minute increase in EU citizens coming to the UK, exacerbating delays. “Past experience has shown that previous attempts to tighten immigration rules have led to a spike in immigration prior to the rules coming into force,” MPs said in the committee’s latest report.