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Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain.
‘I didn’t get to vote against Brexit as we live in France – and my daughter suffered the consequences’
06/10/2023
A British father living in France says he was denied the chance to vote on Brexit, but his family are enduring the consequences of it.
“Are they going to break our family apart?"
There is no longer certainty that EU countries will respect and recognise proceedings heard in England and Wales.
Ulrike’s story: the human cost of Brexit
21/06/2021
The In Limbo Project gathers and shares the heart-rending stories of people caught up in the Brexit crossfire. Here is one of their most recent testimonies, reproduced by kind permission. It epitomises the senseless, casual cruelty that is just one of Brexit’s toxic legacies.
"To be honest, it’s very hard on my son. We tried to make light of it, just saying we are going on vacation, but he misses his father," one British mother whilst being forced apart by Brexit from her French husband.
The British government has been ordered to pay the European commission’s legal costs after being successfully sued for granting City traders a tax break without EU permission.
The UK is one of the worst places in Europe for paid parental leave and affordable quality childcare, the UN's children's charity has said.
The issue arises when teenagers turn 18. One mother said; 'It's getting beyond a joke'.
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.
Bid to force Boris Johnson to act thrown out – despite charities warning youngsters are in danger as they are forced to turn to smugglers.
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.
The post-Brexit reality for divorce
16/09/2021
At the beginning of 2021 the law changed concerning how international couples divorce.
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.
Indecision over Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union three years after referendum feeds clashes within families as attitudes become more entrenched.
Refugees face risk of deportation under Priti Patel’s ‘cruel’ asylum overhaul, charities warn
24/03/2021
Plans to deny automatic right to asylum to refugees arriving in UK via unauthorised routes spark alarm.
The scheme offers EU nationals the opportunity to apply for settled or pre-settled status in the UK. / However, access to this support varies between holders of EU settled status and of pre-settled status. Questions are being asked of the European Commission whether the UK is complying with its obligations.
Post-Brexit spouses aren’t protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, Court of Appeal confirms
01/08/2023
If you married an EU national in the UK after 31 December 2020, you can’t get leave to remain under the EU Settlement Scheme unless you previously had or applied for an EEA residence card or family permit as their durable partner.
The government has said it is not carrying out a "formal review" into the post-Brexit rights of Irish citizens who were born in Northern Ireland. It follows concerns that a change in UK immigration rules could mean the loss of some rights after Brexit.
A family’s dream of a new life in Scotland has been ripped apart by Brexit visa red tape.
A family’s dream of a new life in Scotland has been put on hold as they wait for a visa caused by Brexit red tape.
Mixed Nationalities Families in UK & EU Face Difficulties in Mobility Even After 2 Years of Brexit
27/07/2022
Families with one partner from the United Kingdom and another one from the European countries have revealed they haven’t yet adjusted to new changes coming as a result of Brexit, which marked the UK officially leaving the EU back in 2020.
UK law enforcement can no longer immediately access real-time data about persons and objects of interest, including wanted and missing persons.
"Families should be together," says Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child and led peers' immigration bill revolt.
Italian grandmother who has lived in Britain for 42 years is ordered to leave the UK after she failed to reply to Home office email because it was sent to her junk folder
08/12/2023
An Italian grandmother who has lived in Britain for 42 years has been ordered to leave the UK - after a Home Office email was sent to her junk folder.