People awaiting decisions having problems applying for jobs and moving house, say campaigners.
One in 10 applicants who received outcomes last month given no immigration status, new data shows.
After months of discussions, the authority overseeing the rights of EU citizens in the UK has launched a legal action against the Home Office over the treatment of 2.5 million people who should be protected under the Brexit deal.
Anger as Home Office confirms primary school children of EU citizens to be checked for criminal records
10/09/2019
Government says all applicants for EU settlement scheme aged 10 and over will be checked for criminal records – despite previously stating these checks would only apply only to over-18s.
Home Office says in letter that it cannot give unilateral assurances until status of Britons in other EU countries is protected.
Boris Johnson suffers triple defeat in Lords as peers vote against plans to allow lower courts to overrule EU law
20/01/2020
Peers also voted to provide EU citizens with physical proof of their right to stay in UK.
Michel Barnier protests at risk to independent watchdog meant to protect residents’ rights – as prime minister seeks to open trade talks.
Brexit and Government hostility combine to make ‘bizarre and cruel’ system for Ukraine refugees, lawyer says
10/03/2022
Leading human rights barrister Usha Sood has condemned hostility to immigrants and Home Office bureaucracy for failing the most vulnerable victims of the Russian invasion.
When Dutch boat captain and engineer Ernst-Jan de Groot applied to continue working in Britain after Brexit, he became ensnared in a bureaucratic nightmare because of an online glitch and says he is now likely to lose his job.
Rishi Sunak should admit ‘main factor’ behind problem so he can fix it, says Durham University study.
Thousands of people say their rights have been compromised despite government promises.
Some people cannot prove they are in the country legally because of glitch in digital residency permits.
The U.K. government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds ($5.7 billion) preparing for Brexit since the 2016 referendum, according to figures released by the National Audit Office.
European parliament says mixed messages have caused ‘unhelpful uncertainty’.
Britain’s government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money on preparations to leave the European Union, the public spending watchdog said on Friday, in the first detailed estimate of the cost of Brexit.
Unprecedented labour shortages have left hundreds of tonnes of produce rotting in the fields.
Home Office ministers have been criticised for not spending millions of pounds of EU funding to help tackle problems areas such as food deprivation, homelessness and child poverty.
Councillor Maggie Filipova-Rivers who has lived in UK for 19 years is denied settled status by Home Office
09/09/2019
A COUNCILLOR who has lived in the UK for 19 years, is married to a British man and has two British children has been denied ‘settled status’ by the Home Office.
The Tánaiste has raised concerns about the "citizenship and identity provisions" of the Good Friday Agreement after a Northern Irish woman lost a challenge by the British Home Office on its ruling that she is British by birth.
FoI reveals Home Office details on applications of EU citizens to stay in UK post-Brexit.
Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say
15/03/2021
Go-live deadline of 2019 whooshed by - and that's going to cost taxpayer £173m.
Ministers refuse to ease immigration restrictions as campaigners warn of ‘social care time bomb’
EU children in custody to be stripped of rights as Home Office prevents them from applying for settled status
09/09/2019
Ministers are accused of subjecting EU children to ‘double punishment’.
“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.
Europeans with job interviews tell of detentions and expulsions despite rules allowing non-visa holders to attend interviews