The government will grant all EU nationals entering Britain between the planned Brexit date at the end of October and the end of 2020 a three-year right to remain. The Home Office said applications for temporary leave would open once Britain had left the bloc without a deal and involve a "simple online process" including identity, security and criminal record checks. The government's EU settlement scheme aims to register EU nationals living in Britain, giving them a new legal right to remain. But so far only about 1 million of the estimated 3 million plus EU nationals living in Britain have registered to remain.