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What's it like to be an EU citizen living in the UK under the cloud of deportation from your family, your friends, everything you know and love? I sat down with "In Limbo" and "The 3 Million" campaigner Cosi Doerfel Hill to find out.
EU citizens across the UK were denied their vote in the European Elections in May 2019. There is clear Government responsibility, yet it will not hold a public inquiry despite several successful petitions that between them gathered over 150,000 signatures.
Michel Barnier said in his letter to the Brexit secretary that citizens’ rights could not be picked apart from the withdrawal agreement.
EU immigrants are the latest scapegoats in an election that demonises others to gloss over the Tory party’s own failure to create a prosperous and more equal society, writes Maike Bohn, co-founder of the3million.
A FAMILY with settled status in the UK has told how confusion over post-Brexit immigration rules left them struggling to return to their home in Scotland after a Christmas break.
Some people cannot prove they are in the country legally because of glitch in digital residency permits.
The Home Office lost a case over the 'pre-settled-status' rule - which could see up to 2.6million EU citizens become 'illegal overstayers' overnight and 'liable to detention and removal'.
British nationals living in the Netherlands have been dropped from draft legislation which would allow dual nationality for people affected by the Brexit chaos.
CakeWatch - Episode 54: Denied My Vote
29/05/2019
Chris, Tanja, and Axel Antoni offer a first take on last week's European election and its aftermath before examining in a bit more detail what led to the disenfranchisement of many EU citizens who were denied their vote, and what can be done about it.
Campaigners for EU citizens have launched a scathing attack on Boris Johnson over his claims that EU nationals who made Britain their home have treated the UK like “their own” country for too long.
Campaigners who represent EU citizens living in the UK say they are taking stock after losing a High Court fight over the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Concerns over Brexit pensioners
30/06/2022
Activists from the 3 million organisation have said that it is "worrying" that people of retirement age represent only 2.6% of European citizens' applications for post-'Brexit' residence status in the UK.
Some are being told the problems are due to the election only being confirmed at the last minute. / EU citizens have reported being turned away at polling stations for the European elections, despite being registered to vote.
Citizens' groups say no way of telling scheme is working until it is too late.
“For many they may mean lost job opportunities, missing out on rental properties, being refused loans/or mortgages,” EU citizens campaign group In Limbo said.
Around 600,000 EU nationals in the UK might not apply for settled status, with disastrous consequences, the3million spokesperson Maike Bohn writes.
Voters described turning up to take part in the European parliamentary elections only to find their name had been crossed out 'in red pen'.
Campaign groups prepare legal challenge following ‘systemic denial’ of suffrage. / The government is facing the prospect of being sued by campaigners for EU citizens in the UK and British nationals abroad who were denied a vote in the European parliament elections.
EU citizens fear being locked out of homes, jobs, and healthcare by Brexit settlement scheme design flaw
27/08/2020
Campaign launched for government to give EU citizens physical proof of right of residence.
People who have lived, worked and made families in the UK tell us their struggles with paperwork following the Brexit vote.
Judge rules Data Protection Act clause denying them right to obtain records is not unlawful.
Report finds EU citizens fear discrimination and loss of identity living in post-Brexit UK.
EU citizens will be deported for minor offences under Priti Patel’s post-Brexit immigration crackdown, lawyer warns
14/07/2020
Alarm that long-standing UK residents will be ‘separated from their children and families, returned to countries they barely know’.
EU nationals at risk of being denied UK citizenship after home office creates shock new tests
24/05/2020
Further evidence will be demanded that EU nationals have been living in the UK legally – even after settled status awarded.
Brandon Lewis says people who do not apply before 2021 may be removed from UK.