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Pour les couples de Britanniques et d’Européens qui vivent sur le continent, le Brexit est devenu un vrai casse-tête administratif. Ils ont jusqu’au 29 mars 2022 pour déménager au Royaume-Uni s'ils v…

I had a very brief conversation with a rather harassed, but lovely lady pulling bins out onto the street for the bin wagon earlier this morning. Our bins shoul…

Wednesday 30 June is deadline day for the EU Settlement Scheme EU nationals are being told “you’re welcome here and we want you to stay”, on deadline day to apply to stay in the country legally. From Thursday, those who have not applied to the EU Settlement Scheme will become “undocumented”, and will lose their previously guaranteed rights to access the NHS, public sector housing, care services and unemployment benefit, as well as their rights to work and rent in the UK. ‘They all d...

Rejected but 5.3 million applications if you take out repeat applications, but the initial estimate for the number of people who might have been eligible to apply from the government was between 3.5 and 4.1 million so very different. in terms of what has been approved so far, two things you can apply for, settled status, which means you have the right to remain to work and live here as you have been before brexit, and 2.75 million people have been approved for settled status as at the end of may...

New figures reveal that more than 3,000 EU citizens living in Oxfordshire are still waiting for the Home Office to process their applications – with just five weeks to go before the Government’s deadline. The latest EU Settlement Scheme statistics reveal that almost 30,000 people in Oxfordshire have only been granted temporary ‘Pre-Settled Status’. In total, 33,030 Oxfordshire applicants have still not been given the permanent right to stay. Figures show that as of the end of March,...

A quarter of EU citizens living in the UK do not feel they are treated equally to UK citizens, according to the first survey of EU citizens by the watchdog set to protect their rights published on Thursday (13 May). The survey of 3,000 EU nationals resident in the UK by the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA), also underscored a general lack of trust in UK public bodies. A full 30% of respondents said that they were not confident their citizens’ rights...

Migrants4Labour: The new political group out to give EU citizens a voice in UK politics “Regardless of people’s views on freedom of movement, I think we need to start taking migrant voters seriously.” A new group wants British parties to start involving EU citizens in political decisions – and is trying to change Labour from within. One of the people behind the movement is Dr Alexandra Bulat, who could be the first Romanian county councillor in the UK, if successful during the May local...

Grandma, PTSD warrior and frail father among government’s Brexit victims ‘In Limbo’ author reveals why the government’s Settlement Scheme and citizenship process could cause a scandal like Windrush. Elena Remigi started gathering stories for In Limbo in 2017, shortly after the UK voted to leave the bloc. She said: “I realised EU citizens have become a bargaining chip for the government. EU citizens didn’t seem to have a voice. “People were leaving comments saying how they felt an...

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 �...

CBTM10015 - Withdrawal Agreement – The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal Act) 2020 You should check the other guidance available on GOV.UK from HMRC as Brexit updates to those pages are being prioritised before manuals. Withdrawal Agreement – The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal Act) 2020 The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020 and entered in to a implementation period which ended on 31 December 2020. The new rules governing t...