Efforts to reassure citizens of European Union (EU) citizens about their future post-Britain’s exit are ‘a first step, but insufficient,” a EU official said.

Under the scheme announced by Prime Minister Theresa May, EU citizens living in the Untied Kingdom for five years would get a “settled status”, with access to health and other benefits.

PM May said people deserved certainty, but European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker said more was needed.

And campaigners said there were still "more questions than answers".

Many Britons living in the EU are also worried about what it will mean for a reciprocal deal.

The settled status for EU citizens would give them the right to stay in the UK after its exit and get the same rights to welfare, pensions, and education as UK citizens.

She also promised to streamline the system, including doing away with an 85-page permanent residency application form.

But, no cut off date has been specified by the PM’s office neither the further details of the plans, which are reported to also involve a two-year “grace period” for people moving to the UK after Brexit to regularize their status, will not be released until Monday.

German Chancellor Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that the offer was “a good start,” but other European leaders have said more details is required while Juncker who represents the EU executive arm said it was a “first step but this step is not sufficient".

The founding member of the 3million, Anne-Laure Donskoy said that the offer was "disappointing" and "really falls short of our expectations".

She said that it was "neither fair nor really serious".

"It is like a teaser this statement, it gives you the general direction of travel potentially, but there are things in the statement that need to be unpicked."

AMandeep