EU nationals are discovering that the domestic Office is driven not by reason but by keeping numbers downFirst they were anomalies: the reports of European citizens legally living in the UK,but caught in some dystopian drama with the domestic Office after the Brexit vote. Perhaps they were just administrative mix-ups, we might have reasoned: straightforward cases that ran into misinformed, and computer-says-no immigration officials. Now the stories are fitting regular. We hear tales of Europeans – some of whom were even born in the UK and have lived here all their lives,or are married to British citizens and have children born in Britain – being forced to regularise their status, appealing to the domestic Office for some stability and reassurance via naturalisation. Related: Assuring EU citizens of right to stay 'would lose UK negotiating capital' Related: domestic Office urged to reform residency process by frustrated EU citizens Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com