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The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is a transitory immigration regime rolled out by the Home Office as part of the measures for the UK withdrawing from the EU. More can be said about whether the EUSS can truly be hailed an overall "success", as per official Government messaging, several years after its initial introduction. This paper evaluates this by considering two case studies of vulnerable immigrant women required to apply to the Scheme to successfully remain in the UK after the transition period: those at risk of or facing violence against women and girls (VAWG), and non-EU family members (NEFMs) of EU citizens. Using the theories of intersectionality and vulnerability, the paper outlines how gender and immigration status intersect to make women more vulnerable by virtue of the legal framework of the EUSS and its criteria, arguing that it entrenches intersectional oppression faced uniquely by these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the opinion of an advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) Eleanor V. E. Sharpston in O and B as well as S and G cases addressing claims of residency brought by third-country national (TCN) family members of Dutch union citizens who left the Netherlands.It discusses the fundamental rights included in the Charter of fundamental Rights of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights.