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Will this have any effect on married priests already serving (converts from Anglican and Lutheran church and those within the Eastern Rite Uniate Churches) in the Roman Catholic church?

No.

When the church takes on a priest that was already married like that, they are not going to tell them to get a divorce.

From a practical standpoint, a priest can't be married in the Catholic church and it makes no sense.

Unlike many other faiths, the priests take a vow of poverty. All real estate that house churches and schools are for the benefit of the people of the church and do not belong to the priests. All that is under the authority of the Vatican.

A married priest would throw the vow of poverty out the window and with women and children around, there would be liens on the assets of the people of the church by ex-wives seeking support for themselves and their children as well as settlements of cash (where there is none provided.

Other faiths may have wives, but the individual minister often has to make or break their vocation by their own talent. They may own the building they have services and a home eventually, but priests and nuns don't do that, they own nothing that is attached to the church.

Sometimes people in Catholic vocations could have personal holdings in life from inheritance or their life prior their religious life and once in a while those folks might keep those assets to live a little off of.