The government have just started trialling their new system for EU migrants to register and get settled status in the UK ahead of Brexit.

They have included a check for a 'serious criminal record' in the process.

Of course, there has been no information about the definition of 'serious' and what the impact will be of a serious record (simply not given settled status, being evicted from the UK,...?)

Likewise, no guidance on whether this is a check against UK PNC records (so only throws up convictions in the UK), whether it checks against the person's home country (via ECRIS?) or whether checks against watchlists such as SISII.

The likes of the Daily Mail are always concerned about 'overseas criminals'. It would be ironic if all those criminals who settled in the UK and haven't been convicted of a serious crime once here are allowed to settle as we only have access post-Brexit to our own records.