EU citizens' issues
EU citizens living in the UK before 1st Jan 2021 were promised that our rights would remain the same. However, our rights are now conditional on our immigration status.
There are around six million EU citizens who have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme to confirm their rights to live and work in the UK. Since the 30th June 2021 deadline to apply, we have seen numerous people have still come forward to confirm their status. The government currently does not know the size of the cohort of people who are in scope of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, but have not applied for status.
This potentially very large cohort of people are under UK immigration control and at risk of having their rights denied.
Below we go in-depth into the problems we experience as EU citizens in the UK.
If you have problems applying, viewing or proving your immigration status, please report it. Your stories help inform our work. We analyse EU citizens’ problems, identify systemic issues and continuously advocate for change. We rely on you sharing your issues; this allows us to do this work, forming the basis of our reports to the Independent Monitoring Authority, research, and our advocacy with decision makers.
If you have been affected and have struggled accessing your rights, and you want to take action to make a change, join our EU citizens' campaigns network.
