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The British government is breaching the withdrawal agreement with the European Union by requiring EU citizens to reapply for the right to live and work in the United Kingdom, an independent body set up to oversee citizens’ rights told a London court today.
Top chef who served Royals and worked at 2012 Olympics ‘doesn’t qualify for Settled Status’ despite living in UK for 15 years
23/08/2019
Damian Wawrzyniak has only been offered pre-Settled Status even though he has lived in the UK past the five-year threshold
Thousands of vulnerable EU children risk falling foul to hostile environment due to ‘woefully inadequate’ support
02/09/2019
Lack of government funding to help children in care apply for EU settled status could leave many undocumented and without access to state care, charities warn.
Thousands of domestic abuse victims who are European nationals could be kicked out of refuges or blocked from even entering them after Brexit because they do not know they have to apply for settled status, campaigners have warned.
Thousands of EU citizens face having no right to remain in UK as June 30 Brexit deadline looms
16/06/2021
Think tank UK In A Changing Europe says some will "immediately and irreversibly lose their rights of residence" with the Home Office after June 30 cut-off.
Thousands of EU children face ‘cliff edge’ as still without post-Brexit status three months before deadline
30/03/2021
Three-quarters of EU nationals in local authority care yet to be granted settled status, figures show.
Care sector faces ‘devastation’ as research shows one in seven EU employees unaware that they must apply to regularise status before June 2021 or be stripped of right to work and live in UK.
Thousands of British citizens may be waiting for family permits to be able to move to the UK, but the Home Office reportedly rejected freedom of information requests and parliamentary questions on data from the former Brexit select committee chair, Hilary Benn.
London has been my home for more than forty years, but the emotional and financial drain of the last three years almost made me throw in the towel, writes Baboule.
EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the settled status scheme by the 2021 deadline, Downing Street has said.
First, the lorry drivers dried up. Now, lobbyists in post-Brexit Britain are warning of another looming skills shortage: bankers.
Many Brexiters, including the prime minister, are in denial about the cruelty that their choices have already inflicted on millions of people.
Sian Norris reports on how delays to family permits for spouses, parents and children of EU nationals and British citizens in the UK are causing families untold emotional distress.
Tens of thousands of EU citizens in UK to lose legal status next month due to Brexit ‘cliff edge’
19/05/2021
The EU settlement scheme, which guarantees post-Brexit residency, closes on June 30.
Tens of thousands of EU citizens face deportation because of government settled status scheme, MPs warn
07/09/2020
MPs call for Home Office 'settled status' to be replaced by legal right to stay in letter to Boris Johnson
Temporary pre-settled status for EU nationals ‘breaches Brexit Withdrawal Agreement rules’, campaigners argue
21/01/2021
Just 43 per cent of applicants to the EU settlement scheme have been offered pre-settled status, which expires after five years.
Maria - not her real name - was detained at Luton airport after spending a Christmas break in her home country of Spain. / A Spanish woman was deported from the UK after returning from a Christmas holiday in Málaga, despite presenting the necessary Brexit paperwork that showed her right to live and work in the country.
THE SNP have urged the UK Government to automatically grant post- Brexit residence status for EU nationals to prevent a cliff-edge and to stop damage from being inflicted on Scotland’s economy and NHS.
Everyday I come across people who are struggling to apply for settled status, or are denied their right to work, rent and access benefits.
So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.
Settled status: ‘Left behind’ EU nationals struggle to apply for post-Brexit scheme without face-to-face help
20/11/2020
EU nationals who have been unable to return to the UK due to Covid-19 travel restrictions could also face difficulties applying for the scheme after freedom of movement ends on 1 January.
Settled status: Job adverts on Government site ask for proof of right to remain, against Home Office guidance
25/01/2021
The Home Office has insisted that EU nationals should not be asked for proof of their right to work in the UK, but a number of adverts published on the DWP job page ask for settled status evidence.
Settled status: 400,000 European citizens living in UK in limbo as backlog of applications doubles in a month
22/01/2021
The Government has been accused of creating a ‘cloud of uncertainty’ for those applying to the EU Settlement Scheme.
Campaigners fear for victims of trafficking, modern slavery and the elderly as 30 June deadline looms.
Peers back three amendments including right of EU citizens to physical proof of right to stay in UK.