‘The anxiety is palpable’: EU citizens face looming settled status deadline Lisa O Carroll and Amelia Gentleman
With just three days to go before the deadline for EU citizens who wish to remain living in the UK to apply for EU settled status (EUSS), applicants have described the stress they are experiencing as they submit last-minute applications or wait to hear from the Home Office about whether their applications have been accepted.
They describe the frustration of trying to get through to a Home Office helpline that is often unable to accept calls because of excessive numbers of people seeking advice; many are worried that they may find themselves in a legal limbo, despite government reassurances to the contrary.
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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 and I thought, if I could put them in a book, we can show people how we feel.
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Following months of gruelling negotiations with the EU, the UK has finally managed to leave the transition period with a trade deal. The set of emotions this has evoked throughout the country has been as wide as the chasm opened by the referendum four years ago – from elation and relief, to acute distress. If there’s one thing that the vast majority of people in Britain have gained, however, it’s a sense of clarity, as they entered this new year knowing the terms and conditions of post-Brexit life.
2016: Brexit - A shock to the system
Britain s EU ambassador, Tim Barrow, hands the written notification on the UK s wish to leave to EU to then European Council president Donald Tusk, in 2017 (Photo: Council of the European Union)
Brussels, 30. Dec 2020, 07:45
The evening of 23 June 2016, the day British voters decided whether to leave to European Union, had an unnerving feel to it in Brussels.
An unrelenting summer storm painted the sky with double rainbows and lightening, creating an eerie, out-of-place, out-of-time overture to the vote.
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