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By the end of December, more than 2.8 million citizens of EU countries had applied for the status of a settled person in the United Kingdom, 2.5 million of whom had already received such status.

Poles submitted about 19% of these applications, comprising the largest group among those applying for the status. According to statistics, there are just over 900,000 Polish citizens in Britain, Polish Radio said.