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You did not give up your EU nationality, but you did acquire British citizenship and that is a change (in fact, quite a material one, as explained above, as a British citizen can't hold an immigration status in the UK).
In my opinion, you have already lost Settled Status. See above.
You can apply to have a CoE-RoA stamped into your EU passport. But be aware that it is only valid for the lifetime of your passport and it costs four times the price of a British passport.
What you are saying is obviously correct to other non-EU nationals, but more complicated with EU nationals because of Brexit's Withdrawal Agreement. The status of settled EU nationals in the UK is not equivalent of those of other nationalities with permanent residency, as stated in the Lounes judgment. It stated that "a migrant Union Citizen who naturalizes cannot be compared to a native citizen – their migrant history means that they should be treated differently, and continue to enjoy the rights they had as a migrant".secret.simon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:10 pm"Settled Status" is , in legal terms, Indefinite Leave to Remain issued under Appendix EU of the UK Immigration Rules.
A British citizen can not hold ILR (or any other form of leave under the Immigration Act or Rules) as he has a superior Right Of Abode in the UK.
Therefore, to the best of my knowledge, the answer is yes. Your Settled Status will have lapsed when you became a British citizen (i.e. on the day of your citizenship ceremony), as does the ILR status of non-EEA citizens who have acquired ILR under other sections of the Immigration Rules.
You did not give up your EU nationality, but you did acquire British citizenship and that is a change (in fact, quite a material one, as explained above, as a British citizen can't hold an immigration status in the UK).
In my opinion, you have already lost Settled Status. See above
I agree, for the purposes of sponsoring their family members. The question is whether they can maintain ILR in addition to their naturalised status or whether their ILR is extinguished at naturalisation.vinny wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:43 pmI believe they may be treated as a relevant naturalised British citizen?
I understand. That's very interesting. I guess that we'll just have to wait and see which rights will be retained. Thank you.secret.simon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:46 pmI'm not sure that the Withdrawal Agreement preserves Lounes. It does preserve "Retained EU law", but that can be (and will likely be if it hasn't already been) removed by domestic UK legislation.
The Withdrawal Agreement is narrower than you think. From my reading of the Agreement, it does not preserve case-law based EU citizen rights (like both Lounes and Surinder Singh). It does treate dual British-EU citizens as if solely EU citizens for the purpose of preserving the rights listed under Directive 2004/38/EC for dual British-EU citizens to sponsor their present family members, but it does not (explicitly) extend Lounes to Settled Status.
In a sense, the rights that arose from EU law (particularly case law) directly will be extinguished at the end of the transition period (or whenever the UK Parliament or courts overturn them) and only those rights explicitly stated in the Withdrawal Agreement (a much narrower range) will remain.
After listing certain specific EU laws to be repealed, Section 6(1)(b) of Schedule 1 targets any "EU-derived rights" that "are otherwise capable of affecting the exercise of functions in connection with immigration."Repeal of the main retained EU law relating to free movement etc.
Schedule 1 makes provision to—
(a)end rights to free movement of persons under retained EU law, including by repealing the main provisions of retained EU law relating to free movement, and
(b)end other EU-derived rights, and repeal other retained EU law, relating to immigration.
Actually the EUSS is not a part of the Withdrawal Agreement.