Mark Rofe went to extreme lengths to be with his girlfriend Alex Limanowka in Barcelona.

Juliet Guthrie in Germany and Patricia Law in Italy reveal how sending gifts and staying connected with family members is more challenging than ever before

After the referendum, life carried on as normal but nothing was the same.

Brexit is not done for many British-European families, even two and a half years after the UK left the European Union.

Carol and Lahsen Karmoud have been in relationship since 2016, and married in 2019, but have faced two years of issues to be able to live in the UK - and fear time may be running out.

Britons living in the EU who return to the UK after Brexit will be able to bring non-British family members until the end of March 2022.

Deborah Offen on how the uncertainty over ‘settled status’ is driving her British-Danish family out of the UK, Wiktor Moszczynski on Boris Johnson’s betrayal of promises to EU residents of the UK. Plus letters from Jane Lee and Simon Sweeney

“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.

This week marks the third anniversary of Brexit. While for some it’s a cause to celebrate or say, “I told you so”, for European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) citizens and their families falling through the cracks of the Home Office system, it is cause for concern.

Experts are investigating the impact on EU-UK families of strict immigration rules now that the UK has left the European Union.

Brexit and the end of free movement between the UK and the EU has had notable consequences for family life, particularly for mixed British-European families whether they are living in the UK or Europe.

Home Office rejects Italian girl’s EU settlement application after granting status to parents and brother.

"The only winners if we remove legal routes to safety for refugee children trying to reach family here are the criminals and the traffickers," says Lord Dubs.

In a judgment handed down last Friday, the High Court has cast doubt on the British citizenship status of children born in the United Kingdom before 2 October 2000 to EU citizens who did not at that time possess indefinite leave to remain.

The Home Office is preparing to end the current system of family reunification for asylum-seeking children if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Guardian has learned.

The UK’s exit from the European Union resulted in important changes to the residence and employment rights of many British-European families. Drawing on new survey research, Elena Zambelli, Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona explain how these changes affected people living across Europe.

One of the trickier aspects of EU free movement law is “retained” rights of residence for family members if the relationship with their EEA citizen sponsor ends.

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.

"Families should be together," says Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child and led peers' immigration bill revolt.

UK law enforcement can no longer immediately access real-time data about persons and objects of interest, including wanted and missing persons.

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.

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.

A family’s dream of a new life in Scotland has been ripped apart by Brexit visa red tape.

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.

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 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.

Plans to deny automatic right to asylum to refugees arriving in UK via unauthorised routes spark alarm.

Indecision over Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union three years after referendum feeds clashes within families as attitudes become more entrenched.

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.

At the beginning of 2021 the law changed concerning how international couples divorce.

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.

Bid to force Boris Johnson to act thrown out – despite charities warning youngsters are in danger as they are forced to turn to smugglers.

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.

The issue arises when teenagers turn 18. One mother said; 'It's getting beyond a joke'.

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 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.

"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 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.

There is no longer certainty that EU countries will respect and recognise proceedings heard in England and Wales.

“Are they going to break our family apart?"

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.

Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain.