Tag: EU citizens

Deportation flights tripled during the pandemic, and many Home Office planes left with less than 10 passengers.

The new government Bill creates "different classes of British citizenship" and has no meaning "if it discriminates", Good Law Project said.

"The fact that Romanians and other Eastern European nationalities continue to be disproportionately impacted does indicate that some profiling may be taking place,” one lawyer said.

Without a clear immigration status, they have been unable to get a job, rent or access benefits post-Brexit.

"I am simply glad to be able to keep my life as it had been before a referendum in which I had no say, but turned my life upside down."

The Home Office may force millions of EU citizens to reapply for settled status, sparking legal challenges.

The MasterChef judge spoke of his worries about previously unseen workforce shortages being down to “closing the door” on our EU neighbours.

Although net migration from the EU was negative last year, with 94,000 more EU nationals leaving Britain than arriving, this is not the case with non-EU migration. 

Sebastian Przetakowski, who has worked in the industry in the UK for almost two decades, said he is currently fully booked up until next year and has to turn down work because he can no longer find bricklayers and carpenters.