EU citizens and UK Settled Status

[StillGotCake]

I am fast losing the little confidence I have left in Teresa May.

The proposed arrangements for EU citizens post-Brexit are a dog's dinner.

In particular, EU citizens who have previously acquired a permanent residency card (at significant cost and in the face of excessive bureaucracy) are now told that they shouldn't have bothered. It's worthless. They will need to reapply for "Settled Status".

For the love of God, why?? Is TM determined to make the UK the most disliked nation on the planet? If EU citizens have already applied successfully for a PERMANENT residency card surely that can be simply transferred over to settled status without further bureaucracy (and fees).

I have been generally supportive of the U.K. govt in trying to navigate a pathway through Brexit, but my patience is wearing thin. They look incompetent and we are becoming a deeply unloved laughing stock.

Btw @haveyoueverbeenconned we don't have additional rights. We have EXISTING rights until they are removed. Much like EU citizens now really.

Sorry you're getting flamed for a bit of simple guidance. For the record, I'm a commonwealth citizen, and an EU citizen. I voted Remain.

(Calamity, the Gov advice is correct unfortunately that when doing a data protection request for your son your son is entitled just to information about him and they have to redact, remove, cross out information about anyone else including you. However I just suspect it would be worth a try for £10 or whatever the charge is as papers about your son might by tiny chance actually obliquely refer to you even if they then remove the next page or cross bits out. It is possibly worth a try.)

@haveyoueverbeenconned that wasn't advice. Just a recommendation. I guess you have run out of logical arguments since you have to resort to childish slurs now. @calamitygene I never mind a bit of flaming as that shows the poster has run out of anything valuable to engage in debate with. I guess they are just bitter things have not gone their way. I quite understand that, I have been bitter previously but we just have more time to get used to it and be very pragmatic about the vagaries of UK immigration laws.

Calamity Another approach you could try in parallel is to email your MP and ask him or her to contact Visa and Immigration on your behalf. A few minutes web searching should find you an email address.

It will cost you nothing and it might encourage Visa and Immigration to be a bit more helpful.

fat yes you do have extended rights. Go compare

And how about you Che k your posts lecturing me about racism and how you understand it through others. So you have nevercexoerienced racism but can give history lectures regarding the UK about it and how you can live it through others

You are not a UK citizen but you can lecture those that are what we should think

You are not an EU citizen but likewise

And all posts lead to how awful it has been for you. How about you recognisecsone of what I have said rather than hiding your own agenda about how hard done by you are. Again you haven't experienced racism but chunter about 'whites' You aren't having any rights taken away from you but rejoice that others are having theirs removed

Bitter? I don't wish ill on others. I want the best for all. You do not

so it all boils down to you are not a UK citizen or an EU citizen therefore you have no right to have an opinion, ergo, sit down, shut up and put up as a second class resident of this country. Well Well, don't hold back. Say how you really feel. It simply proves my point that non EU citizens are viewed as lesser and second class. The more you rant the more it shows how bitter and angry you are. I notice the tone and bile on your posts ramped up the minute you found out non EU from the commonwealth have voting rights. Says it all right there.
It has been awful for me and many others. I accept it although I am not pleased about it. My point is that is the attitude EU citizens should take now. Laws and policies change all the time; they just do. Not rejoicing as I have made clear so many posts previously. Just stating a fact.