Re: EU citizens in UK anxiously seek security before Brexit
Originally Posted by
Meg
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Could that just be a standard letter sent to everyone ahead of negotiations and a just formality.
Once article 50 is officially triggered and negotiations into a reciprocal agreement for settled residents is decided the letters could be rescinded .
As the EU rebuffed Mrs May's attempts to discuss a reciprocal agreement before formal negotiations started it is possible a logical train of events followed.
We will see in time if the letters showed serious intent or were just a formality.
I feel all this uncertainty could have been avoided if the EU hadn't been so intransigent and had approached the discussions of EU residence in a timely manner and with a degree of amicability instead of chest beating and rhetoric
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Hi
No Meg, it is not a standard letter at all, it is a specific one sent to those who have applied for permanent residency following the Brexit Referendum and who have been refused, even on the smallest technicality.
Some of the reasons for rejection where unknown previously, having never been posted on the Government Websites and not been publicised elsewhere.
A complete nonsense, even people who have been here for 20 years are being affected, primarily EU spouses of UK Citizens.
Even those who children were born here and the children are now either working or at Uni.
We cannot unilaterally give full Citizenship to all.
We have EU Criminals here, we need to be able to deport them when convicted, the EU need to be able to the same when our Criminals commit crimes in the EU.
As you quite rightly say, a little bit of commonsense should be able to sort this out.
Unfortunately it would appear that in this instance, our Home Office are being as stupid as Juncker.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/748...-EU-referendum