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Settled Status may work OK for you, it is just residency / identity / no serious criminal record and if hmrc has some data on you, happy days! The rules are quite more relaxed than the PR rules.
UKCEN is a good forum on Facebook, maybe they know more about the case for Swiss nationals.
They are currently in trial phase 2 for settled status. But yeah if there is no deal / a mess with paperwork and windrush v2 as people cannot prove they can work then the economy won't do so well either. Any Brexit harms the economy of course.
I'd register in any case once SS is out, because they also count student towards the total immigration numbers and they don't want to budge on that atm, so you better get in the system if you want to stay.
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Yeah once their new system is actually up and running, I'm definitely getting on that! Thanks for the facebook tip, I'll check that out.
Any Brexit harms the economy of course.
Oh yeah, but potentially randomly deporting people will definitely be the best way of harming it. Of course I'm biased as universities are some of the most multinational environments, but one thing is for sure, most of the 'higher-grade' research departments would be at least half empty the day after Brexit if they were to get rid of all EU workers (and students). Sure that part won't have an immediate impact on the economy, but it will do irrevocable harm in the long term... but hey, the fisheries will make up for it, right?
SwissChap
I am very worried. But then I'm also Swiss, so not actually an EU citizen, but of a citizenship 'tacked on' to EU citizenship rules. I don't know whether that makes the situation better or worse for me (I'm going to go with worse: even if they arrange something for EU citizens, they'll forget about Swiss etc. people). However, I have a possible 'out' as I could 'upgrade' to being a full-time student again, which is probably going to be easier to get leave to remain for.
I also considered getting the settlement thing that won't be valid after 03/19 for much the same reason as you, but the problem is that while I have been in the UK for 5 years now, 4 of those were as a student and they are a bit asshole-ish about that (and have always been), so it's unclear whether I'd actually qualify. But I definitely don't want to try and get rejected for it, that would mean 'being in the system' for all the wrong reasons.
My main worry here isn't that they won't figure out some kind of arrangement at all - if they don't, the UK economy will pretty literally start collapsing -, it's more that they will fuck it up in individual cases. I don't fancy being windrushed, but considering the general competency levels in the home office, that's a very real possibility.