{"id":158,"date":"2017-03-31T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2023-07-19T06:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T06:03:59","slug":"one-year-later-brexit-made-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/brexit\/one-year-later-brexit-made-official\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later: Brexit Made Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28246711066_52e38bc591_z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28246711066_52e38bc591_z.jpg\" alt=\"One Year Later: Brexit Made Official\" width=\"238\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><b><\/b>On March 29, 2017, Brexit implementation began its journey as Theresa May signed the official letter to EU. The letter was handed over by Sir Tim Barrow, in Brussels, at 12:20 BST.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The letter states \u201cWe should work together to minimise disruption and give as much certainty as possible.&#8221; There are two years of negotiation to follow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The current Brexit timeline is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>March 29:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Article 50 triggered<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>March 30:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Great repeal bill published<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>March 31:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> President of European Donald Tusk publishes negotiation guidelines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><b>April 29: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU Summit, remaining EU members will adopt negotiation guidelines<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Spring:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Great Repeal Bill announced at the opening of Parliament<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><b>Late May\/ early June: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start of formal face-to-face talks<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Late 2017:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Great Repeal Bill goes through stages of Parliamentary scrutiny<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><b>Late December 2017: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU chief negotiator Michael Barnier expects initial discussions to conclude<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Early 2018:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Great Repeal Bill likely to receive royal assent<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><b>Mid 2018:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Parliament may need to pass further laws to cover any gaps in legislation<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>September 30, 2018:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brexit negotiator Michael Barnier wants to wrap up Brexit terms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Late 2018\/ early 2019:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Both houses of Parliament and European Council and Parliament will have a vote on any deal<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>March 2019:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Two-year negotiation window closes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs. May stated, &#8220;The Article 50 process is now under way and in accordance with the wishes of the British people the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. This is a historic moment from which there can be no turning back.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29, 2017, Brexit implementation began its journey as Theresa May signed the official letter to EU. The letter was handed over by Sir Tim Barrow, in Brussels, at 12:20 BST.\u00a0The letter states \u201cWe should work together to minimise disruption and give as much certainty as possible.&#8221; There are two years of negotiation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}