Using Windrush scheme to confirm ILR/ROA

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Not sure if I should post here or elsewhere.

I have finally got my Settled Status but like many, I am worried there is no physical proof of my status. Apparently I can use the Windrush scheme to apply for biometric proof of indefinite leave to remain, or right to abode (as some who arrived before 1998).

For background - I arrived when I was 5 years old in 1981. Mother is British/Father is not.

Has anyone been through this process (specifically if from a non-Commonwealth country)?

Was it straight-forward? What kind of documentation should I look to provide - do they really need school records?

How do you know you have settled status?
If its an email, print it to PDF and store copies in multiple places.

If its a letter, scan and archive.
Do you still have one of your old passports with the ILR in it? Scan and archive.

Settled Status is only digital. So I have an email confirming I have it, so you can only view it by logging on to the website.

No passport with ILR stamped - because you didn't need it back then (EU freedom of movement and all that).

Log into the website and then screenshot and save that screenshot as a PDF

Print the email to PDF as well

Look back at your pre single market passports - see what stamps you have in them
copy to PDF

You can apply for nationality in your case:
www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parent/born-before-1983

I don't think anyone who has seen the crap online system for settled status understands how fucking fragile it is. One glitch and our legal status is gone. There is not a single viewing option that would be useful if saved as PDF/printed - it is a system designed to offer nothing permanent and it does it surprisingly/suspiciously well.

Blimey those fees are pretty cheap - almost worth doing it

Almost
Would screenshot not work?
Into Irfanview and then saved

I know how to screenshot and print to PDF ;)

No, you need to get a number that can then be entered into an online system. If the system says "yay" then you have settled status. If not, then not. Glitch in the system? Bye bye legal status. The number is only valid 30 days and no printed, screenshoted, or otherwise saved document is valid or accepted to prove settled status. Landlords, banks, NHS,...they all need to use that number system to ensure you have settled status ON THAT DAY.

The layout of the website is also so crap that you cannot even screenshot or PDF print it in a way that will properly show when you gained settled status, etc.

Almost
Oh they really are buggers aren't they.
I guess the main thing is to keep the emails showing that you were compliant on a certain date and as you have changed nothing, any error is theirs.
And cross your fingers and toes

I applied for naturalisation, so hopefully won't have to cross things for too long - but lots of people are fucked.

A friend of ours was told her passport number is linked to her settled status.

It is not. They are not sure yet how they will deal with it at the border yet.

She will be travelling over Brexit so will be one of the first to find out.

There is currently no way to proof settled status at border crossings precisely because there is no hard copy of it. That is why Westminster keeps talking about "unchanged" processes at the border.

Sorry, lots of yets, angry typing does that, apparently.

@AlmostChristmas2019 I know I can apply for citizenship but would be at risk of losing current citizenship - which I'm not keen to do. Which is why I'm keen to have ILR confirmed

The Settled status letter states that “this letter is not proof of status” I’d keep the email and said letter though