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‘This is only the tip of the iceberg’: EU nationals in UK already facing difficulty with digital-only status amid warnings of ‘crisis’ ahead
22/08/2020
EU citizens held up in airports and facing delays in moving house because they can’t provide physical proof of UK residency – despite government’s own assessment warning digital-only status would cause ‘a lot of issues’.
EU citizens rights campaigners The3Million have said that “numerous” EU nationals are being refused Universal Credit because of their settlement status.
‘Nowhere to go’: Outrage at Home Office after vulnerable EU nationals applying to stay in UK left without support
06/03/2020
Domestic abuse victims and children in care among those affected by ‘last minute’ announcment of crucial funding, campaigners say.
Kevin Foster made the remarks a week before the deadline for the EU settlement scheme.
Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain.
Without physical proof of our settled status, EU citizens like me fear for our futures post-Brexit
24/01/2020
The Home Office says the EU settlement scheme is working. Working for whom, exactly?
Home Office figures caused speculation that number of Europeans in UK had been underestimated.
'What really got my alarm bells ringing is this sentence under the privacy policy heading: "We may also share your information with other public and private sector organisations in the UK and overseas."'
THE Home Office has launched a new information campaign urging EU citizens living in the UK to apply for its settlement scheme as soon as possible.
Poll finds 90% of EU citizens in UK fear discrimination without evidence of rights after Brexit.
Thousands who fled their war-torn country stand to lose their right to work, rent a home and access NHS.
The British government's post-Brexit settlement scheme for EU citizens is unlawful, the UK's High Court has ruled. / The Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA), an independent body set up to oversee citizens' rights, took legal action against the Home Office.
Confused over regulations, Home Office border staff meet legitimate visitors and workers with suspicion.
EU Brexit spokesman says Britain reassured him about those who do not apply for settled status.
EU citizens in the UK are "expected to beg, bend their knee and show remorse for not knowing" about post-Brexit visa changes, Euronews was told.
UK could lose right to share security and business data with EU after Brexit, minister admits
16/06/2020
Alternatives 'might need to be pursued', James Brokenshire tells inquiry - prompting demands to reveal how UK will be 'protected'.
Torture survivors and lone children stuck in Greece and Italy after Home Office ‘deliberately’ ends cooperation on family reunions. / “Before Brexit, there was a clear process for children to join their families in the UK, but since then the government has failed to communicate effectively with European authorities,” said Bethany Gardiner-Smith.
Proposal floated as part of crackdown replacing free movement with minimum salary threshold of £25,600 and EU citizens may have to provide fingerprints.
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.
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.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
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
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.
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.