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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 government's 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 limbo because of a huge backlog in paperwork at the Home Office. The Guardian newspaper reports that a...

EU citizens applying for settled status face legal limbo due to backlog Lisa O'Carroll © 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. There are just 50 days to go before the government’s EU settlement scheme closes and the most recent...

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 would be the worst of all worlds, is if businesses have an employment shortage, which doesn’t make...

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 “no evidence” that she has been in the UK after December 2019. This is despite the fact that she ...

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 want to hear from as many people as possible. Their responses, along with the complaints we receive...