This can't be palmed off as an administrative bungle. This is a policy that has been rigorously followed through on. In the post-Brexit climate, this policy is the new normal.
It is a bit amusing that the Daily Mail and the Sun are now so opposed to it. TM must feel a bit like they are moving the goalposts on her.
In a just world this should be terminal for Theresa May. It won't be though, because fundamentally Conservatives just don't really care very much about this side of immigration administration.
Post-Brexit, the government has been explicitly proceeding on the basis that it's fine to treat people as pawns in discussions about immigration. This is the logical conclusion of such a line of thought.
So the rules have changed in the last two years?
This whole approach, including the approach to enforcement, comes from the top. The post-Brexit climate determines how rules are enforced. 3 million European citizens in the UK are being left in limbo while the government uses them as counters to play games with. This is the new normal.
No they are not. The principles have been determined - see the Joint Report issued in December. The positions in that report are the indivisible foundation on which future negotiations are based. But, if that isn't enough for you, how about the 1.2 million UK citizens in Europe who are equally in limbo while the EU uses them as counters to play games with? Or how about the 4.2 million people affected who are in limbo because the EU refused the UK's offer to reach an early agreement on this subject?
I deplore the EU's approach on this subject also. The dehumanising effect of pandering to xenophobia is apparently contagious.
This is a new normal that crosses international boundaries. Leave's xenophobic campaign was one of the dominoes that fell when that new normal was being established.
The UK could and should act unilaterally to regularise the position of EU nationals in the UK. In practice is it proposing to have Windrush2 post-Brexit? If not, it should be acting now to allay the entirely justified fears of these people who are seeing yet again this week just how appallingly the British state treats longterm residents who can be otherised.
steve hawkes - @steve_hawkes: Unbelievable - Amber Rudd says she'll be meeting Commonwealth High Commissioners this week to find out if any Windrush immigrants have been deported It appears Home Office have no idea
This whole Windrush car crash is indicitive of a Gov't system that has absolubtely no wiggle room or exception making for any sort of "individual case" whatsoever.
During the five year odyssey to get my wife's immigration status regularised I wholeheartedly and repeatedly wished the UK were more corrupt. When we lived in Russia I could just bribe someone to get anything done quickly and efficiently. In Britain it was a case of enduring a protracted nightmare of bureaucratic intransigence and incompetence for many years.
Yippee, I’ve got to look forward to this next year. It’d bloody better get sorted before then!
Good luck. They absolutely don't give a fuck and will happily lie to you all day long.
Thanks. The best advice I’ve had is to get a good lawyer and let them deal with it, I think that’s what I’ll do.
Mrs J used a specialist company when she got citizenship many moons ago. It cost a lot of money, but they knew the system inside and out and it was relatively hassle-free, if not cheap.
I am glad you and Mrs J got it sorted, but difficult to come up with the moolah if you are living from month to month or week to week and alas, there are millions of people who do not keep every official piece of paper for decades going back to when they were nippers.
Oh, indeed. She was in a very lucky position to be able to afford it. A friend of hers had been through the process, and the one bit of advice he gave her was to go with a company if she could afford it, as the process was somewhat ramshackle.
From memory, the company asked her for all the details, very precisely detailing exactly what was wanted and held her hand through the process. Then again, she had everything in order - it might have been more complex if hers had been a difficult or unusual case. It also helped that she speaks and writes English very well (better than I do, as it happens).
Having an intelligent, organised spouse is a good thing.
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It appears Home Office have no idea
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