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		</div><p>More than 3.5m applications have now been received for the EU settlement scheme, according to the UK Home Office.</p>
<p>EU citizens are asked to apply by June next year in order to carry on living and working in the UK after freedom of movement with the European Union ends.</p>
<p>The department said 3.56m was the best approximate up-to-date figure available and it was unable to give a specific number from the internal data calculations.</p>
<p>The news comes after last month immigration experts warned gaps in Government data were making it difficult to know whether the scheme is working.</p>
<p>According to official data published on Thursday, more than 3.4m (3,468,670) applications were received by the end of March.</p>
<p>This is slightly lower than previous estimates but the UK Home Office document said published figures “<i>may not necessarily match monthly totals”</i> as they are all experimental, meaning the exact numbers are provisional and yet to be finalised.</p>
<p>Some 493,800 applications were for children and 78,850 were from people aged 65 and over.</p>
<p>Northern Ireland had a “<i>noticeably higher proportion</i>” (18%) of applications from those under the age of 18 compared to the rest of the UK.</p>
<p>A decision has been made on more than 3.1 million (3,147,140) applications, leaving a backlog of 321,530 still to complete.</p>
<p>Some 58% (1,813,390) of concluded applications were granted settled status – giving them permanent leave to remain living and working in the UK – while 41% (1,299,350) were given pre-settled status, where they would need to re-apply again after living in the country for five years to gain permanent residence.</p>
<p>There have been 23,740 applications which were withdrawn or “<i>void</i>”, 10,030 classed as invalid and 640 refused, according to the figures.</p>
<p>Applications from British citizens – who already have a right to live in the country and would not require leave to remain in the country – are among those which would be classed as void, the UK Home Office said.</p>
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