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Women who applied for EU settled status in the UK under their married names may struggle to access jobs and housing because of a government computer anomaly, it has emerged. Many have been left unable to prove their status to councils and employers because they have been wrongly registered to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS) in their birth names. There are fears that this could leave them in legal limbo from 1 July, when EU nationals have to...

Brexit: EU citizens given 28-day deadline to apply to stay in UK By Callum May image copyrightGetty Images Immigration enforcement officials will begin giving EU citizens who live in the UK a 28-day warning to apply to remain, the government says. But the Home Office will allow people indefinite time to complete an application for settled status if they have a reasonable excuse for delay. There is a week to go until the deadline for applications. Some 5.6 million European Economic Area (EEA) ci...

British citizens have wrongly been sent letters by the Home Office warning them about their UK immigration status. Campaigners have said that the ‘scattergun’ mailshot sent to some long-term UK citizens highlights the government’s ‘couldn’t care less attitude’ and demonstrates that they have learnt nothing from the Windrush scandal.    The letters reportedly tell people receiving them that they risk losing their right to work in the UK, benefits and free healthcare unless they app...

Last modified on Wed 26 May 2021 13.23 EDT EU citizens have won the right to get full access to records about them held by the Home Office or any other body after a legal battle by campaigners. Three judges at the court of appeal unanimously overturned an earlier high court decision that their case had no legal merit and ruled the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) unlawfully denied them access to their data through an “immigration exemption” clause. It brings to an end a three-year challenge b...

Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 14.15 EDT A number of long-term British citizens have expressed alarm at receiving letters from the Home Office telling them they risk losing the right to work, benefits and free healthcare unless they apply for UK immigration status in the next six weeks. Campaigners said they were concerned that the “scattergun” mailshot, which was sent out to thousands of people instructing them to apply for EU settled status before the end of June, revealed weaknesses in...

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-05-12 09:19 Share CLOSE European Union and British flags flutter in front of a chancellery in Berlin, Germany, April 9, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] With just 50 days remaining until the British governments settlement program for European Union citizens in the United Kingdom closes, campaigners are warning that almost one third of a million people could find themselves in legal lim...

EU citizens applying for settled status face legal limbo due to backlog Lisa OCarroll © PA A 2017 protest outside parliament by EU citizens urging MPs to guarantee their rights after Brexit. Hundreds of thousands of European citizens could find themselves in limbo after 30 June and left without documented legal rights to remain in the UK if the Home Office does not clear a backlog of more than 320,000 applications for post-Brexit residency status, campaigners have warned. The...

Many of these are believed to be EU nationals. The exodus has prompted fears by the hospitality and retail industries that it could lead to a labour shortage in London just as the economy prepares to open up. “All the evidence we’ve had, anecdotally but also evidence from some of the businesses we’ve spoken to, is these are boomerang Londoners, they’re going to come back and that’s why it’s really important to get the recovery right,” Sadiq Khan said. “What we don’t want, it ...

Journalist refused post-Brexit settled status despite living in UK since age 10 May Bulman © Provided by The Independent A journalist who has lived in Britain since she was 10 years has been refused post-Brexit immigration status and could theoretically face deportation within months. Dahaba Ali, 27, a Dutch-Somali national who studied at the University of Cambridge, was informed by the Home Office that she had not qualified for EU settled status on the grounds that they had �...

The citizens’ rights watchdog set up to protect the rights of EU nationals living in the UK is conducting its first survey to understand the level of public concern about living in Britain after Brexit. Kathryn Chamberlain, the chief executive of the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA), said on Monday (1 February) that the IMA’s survey was one of “a range of intelligence-gathering exercises we are carrying out to protect citizens’ rights.” “I...