EXPOSED: The secret backdoor bringing migrants into Britain – and the £1.8bn EU 'stitch-up' behind it

EXPOSED: The secret backdoor bringing migrants into Britain – and the £1.8bn EU 'stitch-up' behind it The £1.8billion cost is only for the processing of applications, not for any benefits the migrants will be receiving Sign up to the Politics Newsletter I agree to receive updates and information about my account, the GB News Community, and related products and services from GB News. Email address Sign up By signing up you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy and Community Rules.

Thank you for signing up! See the latest from GB News here . Choose GB News on Google - add us as a preferred source Choose GB News Support GB News Champion free speech and independent journalism while unlocking exclusive benefits. Support us The most "politically explosive" element of the entire post-Brexit EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) has been revealed as part of a damning new report. The report from the Brexit Facts4EU think tank, alongside Stand for Our Sovereignty and The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK.Org), has been shared exclusively with GB News.

The findings concluded that while mass public attention remains on illegal migrant crossings, the "Joining Family Members" route for EUSS migrants serves as a permanent, open-ended visa conveyor belt. The route has opened the back door to entering Britain for hundreds of thousands - over one-third of them from outside the EU. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Unlike the main scheme, it has no statutory closing date. The route allows those with a connection to existing applicants to apply for permanent residency in the UK.

Despite Labour's claims that immigration numbers are coming down, the last year saw successful grants of Settled Status under this route more than double. Official Home Office data on the EU Settlement Scheme has revealed that 8,941,726 cumulative applications have been processed. Some 8,837,667 applications have been decided, and around 6.1million applicants have been approved. The route has opened the back door to entering Britain for hundreds of thousands - over one-third of them from outside the EU | FACTS4EU / PA Processing this continuing mountain of paperwork comes at a high cost.

Over the last five financial years, from 2020/21 to 2025/26, Home Office data shows the department has spent £5.8billion purely on immigration and visa decisions. The scheme's 8,837,667 concluded applications have accounted for 31.1 per cent of the department's total casework. The pro-rata share of managing this single scheme has therefore cost an astronomical £1.8billion (£1,795,551,752) since 2020. The £1.8billion cost is only for the processing, not for any benefits the migrants will be applying for and receiving.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Britons believe Andy Burnham is covering up migrant crime data amid court battle Thousands of migrants arrive in Spanish tourist hotspot as authorities declare emergency Deportation crisis as 20,000 foreign offenders remain free in UK despite removal orders Some 8,837,667 applications have been decided, and around 6.1million applicants have been approved | FACTS4EU Responding to the report, former Brexit Minister the Rt Hon David Jones argued that several years after the referendum, an immigration route created under the Brexit settlement is in fact "open to people from across the world".

He said: "Very few Britons who voted to leave the EU envisaged that an agreement on the rights of EU citizens would have consequences on this scale, extending so far beyond the shores of Europe. "Britain is struggling to provide enough homes, infrastructure and public services for its existing population. Yet successive governments of all political colours have clearly been content to allow these arrangements to continue with little or no public scrutiny.

"Ministers must now come clean about how many more people may be entitled to enter under the scheme. If the Withdrawal Agreement prevents Britain from exercising proper control of immigration, a future UK Government must do whatever is necessary to restore that control." Former Secretary of State Lord John Redwood hit out at the Government, declaring that "8.65 million extra people coming to live in the UK this century is far too many".

He said: "Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Ministers have allowed more than 6.1 million to come from the EU, the big majority of the new arrivals. Romania and Poland led this movement. “Now Facts4EU reveal the shocking news that the EU Family Scheme is still being used to invite in many more, years after the Brexit vote to stop this. "A third of the new visas are granted to people who originate outside the EU, using it as a stepping stone to living in the UK.

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