rejected but 5.3 million applications if you take out repeat applications, but the initial estimate for the number of people who might have been eligible to apply from the government was between 3.5 and 4.1 million so very different. in terms of what has been approved so far, two things you can apply for, settled status, which means you have the right to remain to work and live here as you have been before brexit, and 2.75 million people have been approved for settled status as at the end of may, and there is pre settled status, if you had not been here forfive continuous years before the end of last year, you would be granted pre settled status, another 2.28 million people have been given that. they have to then apply again for settled status once they have reached the five year milestone, so whichever way you shake up the numbers, it is more people than most were expecting. numbers, it is more people than most were expecting- were expecting. given that, what do were expecting. given