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BREAKING: Prime Minister confirming that following our lobbying the £65 Settled Status fee for EU citizens will be scrapped. Any paid fees will be reimbursed!
📢 BREAKING: The Secretary of State will not appeal the judgment which found the Brexit rule that makes EU citizens reapply to stay in the UK is unlawful.
The government must now implement changes, in order to conform with the ruling in the case brought by
@ima_citrights
.
Thank you so much Ash Sarkar.
Finally, someone making the human case for migration.
After 4 years we are really tired of having to justify our existence in the UK purely in pounds & pennies all the time.
1/ The
@ukhomeoffice
is forcing every EU citizen applying for Settled Status to accept its Privacy policy that allows it to share all data with "public and private sector organisations in the UK and overseas". We now have a reply to our freedom of information request...
UPDATE: we have just received a phone call from the Electoral Commission - they have been receiving many complaints via our email template. It is working!
If
#DeniedMyVote
has happened to you today then please find template email & instructions below.
📣The House of Lords overwhelmingly backed the amendment that would give EU citizens physical backup of their digital immigration status.
A non political, sensible amendment carried by members from across the House that will protect all but especially elderly & most vulnerable
Important:
European Parliament Elections
#the3millionVote
EU/EEA citizens in the UK can vote at the European Parliament elections in May.
Here, in this thread, we explain what you do need to do NOW to vote in the UK.
#ThisTimeImVoting
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📢 BREAKING: The High Court has ruled the Government’s implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme is unlawful.
In a significant judgment the court protects citizens’ rights and agrees with the
@IMA_CitRights
challenge to the Scheme.
Hello Priti,
Currently 16% of scientists & academics in the UK originate from the EU. No visa restrictions at all. By ending freedom of movement you are making it harder for them.
You could have eased visa restrictions for non-EU long time ago & without Brexit. Just saying.
The UK is a world leader in science & innovation. It’s only right we make it easier for the world’s top scientists & researchers to come to our country.
"I am a Romanian wheelchair engineer working on an NHS contract to repair wheelchairs.
I am seeing on average 10 disabled people at their residence each day.
I am happy that I can still help them in these unprecedented times."
Aurelian Ian Staicu
#RightThereWithYou
Carluccio’s will pay £65 ‘settled status’ fee to ease EU citizen workers’ worries
Mark Jones, chief executive of
@Carluccios
, said: “There would be no Carluccio’s without one man making the journey from Europe to London."
This is a very sad day for the millions of EU/EEA and Swiss citizens and the
@BritishInEurope
who over many years enjoyed and many of whom still are enjoying the freedom to live, work, study in and contribute to countries across the EU that will now be gone for future generations
After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament.
We are delivering on the will of the British people.
European Parliament Elections
EU citizens in the UK - you can vote 🗳️
Registration deadline is:
📆May 7th.📆
Our step-by-step guide on how to register as an EU citizen is now online:
#the3millionVote
#thistimeimvoting
#WeAreThePeopleToo
- should there be a People's Vote the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK & 1.2m
@BritishInEurope
must not be disenfranchised again. The UK is our home & future too and we must have a say should there be another vote.
#PeoplesVoteMarch
1/ Rousing statement by
@StephenGethins
on EU citizens, Settled Status and the Settled Status fee in the House of
@HouseofCommons
today:
"The way EU nationals have been treated is a disgrace and no member [of the House of Commons] should be complicit in what is done in our name."
An extremely worrying tale about
@ukhomeoffice
strong arming the press.
This morning the New European published our below opinion piece.
As with all our pieces we get our legal team to check for accuracy. The piece was 100% accurate.
And then this happened... [Thread]
1/
EU citizens' rights hang by a thread if Priti Patel ends freedom of movement overnight
Our opinion piece in
@TheNewEuropean
on Priti Patel's reckless plan to abruptly end Freedom of Movement in case of no deal Brexit.
#BrokenPromise
#RecklessPolitics
Disappointed but not surprised that the Govt have voted down the amendment that would have provided EU/EEA citizens & their dependants with an automatic status as promised by the Prime Minister during the 2016 referendum campaign.
1/
6/ In summary, the UK Govt is creating a central register just for one minority in the UK, EU citizens, holding data it can share freely & in secret with undisclosed private & public organisation in the UK & across the world. This is truly shocking. /end
We would like to thank
@StewartHosieSNP
for his humble & measured response to the outright disgraceful and nasty argumentation brought by
@RichardGrahamUK
painting EU citizens as nasty criminals the UK is unable to deport. Richard Graham should be ashamed to hit such a low.
1/ This is truly shocking.
@carolinenokes
at Home Affairs committee saying that it will be UK Govt policy to plunge 3.6m EU citizens straight into the
#HostileEnvironment
in case of no deal Brexit. Creating 2 indistinguishable classes of EU citizens with different sets of rights
@BorisJohnson
We appreciate the Prime Minister calling out Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal, nurses who stood by his side looking after him in intensive care.
Two of the many migrants - from nurses to shop assistants
#RightThereWithYou
keeping the country running during
#COVID19
.
BREAKING:
Following
#DeniedMyVote
, together with
@BritishInEurope
, we are preparing legal challenge following systemic denial of right to vote in
#EUelections2019
Please support our Crowdjustice fundraiser:
BREAKING:
#DeniedMyVote
legal challenge
After the Government's refusal to allow a public inquiry into EU citizens unable to vote we have no other option than taking it to court.
Please help with the funding.
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BREAKING: Electoral Commission refuses to honour commitment to EU citizens
Over the last few days we have been in contact with the
@ElectoralCommUK
regarding disenfranchisement of EU citizens during the 2014 EU election - bound to repeated this year.
1/
Many of us are on the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
in London today.
Should there be a People's Vote the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK must not be disenfranchised again about a decision that affects us & our families in a country we call home.
#WeAreThePeopleToo
@DavidTCDavies
Dear
@DavidTCDavies
, this is not new. Actually, at the last European Parliament elections many EU citizens were disenfranchised exactly because local authorities did not send them the form they seem to be sending out this time.
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This is shameful Government gaslighting. No protection of EU citizens has been put into law yet. So far we have an immigration bill in the pipeline that will strip EU citizens of rights and a Settlement Scheme which forces them to apply for the right to stay.
The UK is a welcoming and open country. We have protected the rights of EU citizens in the UK. Now it's EU countries' turn to match our offer and give UK nationals certainty in any
#Brexit
scenario.
#BrexitOpportunities
BREAKING:
Today, we have lodged an official complaint about the Electoral Commission’s handling of the registration of EU citizens for this year’s European Parliament Elections.
1/
Statement on the no-deal law France is passing for the
@BritishInEurope
:
France should not lower its standard by seeking reciprocity with the treatment of French citizens by the British State after Brexit.
The values of the République must be upheld during Brexit for everyone.
What was Theresa May's dream news headline from her speech today at the
@CBItweets
conference?
"Brexit plan will stop EU migrants 'jumping the queue' "
Who delivered that headline? The
@BBC
@bbcpress
, you are complicit in starting yet another anti-EU citizen campaign.
Great news:
@jeremycorbyn
confirms that
@UKLabour
will back the Costa Amendment, which will force the Prime Minister to seek ring-fencing of
#citizensrights
with the EU for EU citizens in the UK &
@BritishInEurope
under Article 50 to protect us from the fallout of no-deal Brexit.
At House of Commons this afternoon
@jeremycorbyn
directly addresses
@theresa_may
- demanding a stop to the poisonous & divisive rhetoric she used to describe EU citizens in the UK.
Agreed - we are not
#QueueJumpers
. EU citizens are your friends, neighbours, colleagues.
This morning, we want to send a
#BigHug
to all fellow EU citizens and other migrants in the UK who are worried about their future after Boris' election.
@the3million
will continue to fight for you to be able to live, love and work in the UK as now & hold the Government to account
The proposed deal ends free movement of people, and yet all of the population increase needed to grow our economy over the next 25 years will come from migration.
EU nationals provide vital support to help us meet the need for workers in key sectors such as research and care.
Brace yourself this week. The immigration white paper is going to be published. The UK Govt will go into overdrive trying to sell the only 'gain' from Brexit - 'slashing EU immigration'. We are expecting the usual anti-immigration language from ministers. We will not tolerate it.
"I’m Tomas. A London bus driver born in Slovakia. Together with my colleagues we’re helping to keep London moving by getting the keyworkers to their workplaces.
We’re all
#RightThereWithYou
"
〰️
#COVID19
BREAKING:
Secretary of State
@BrandonLewis
confirms that EU citizens in UK WILL be subject to full immigration enforcement and liable to removal if they miss Settled Status deadline in exclusive Interview with
@StefanieBolzen
in Germany's
@welt
1/
We are delighted that Scotland has joined Wales in guaranteeing the right to vote of EU27 citizens and extended the franchise to all residents regardless of origin.
This decision is fair and just. We hope Westminster will mirror it in due course.
Shameful. After MP
@Dr_PhilippaW
asking the Prime Minister to apologise for her insulting
#QueueJumper
comment on EU citizens the best May manages is to mutter "I should have not used that language" to then divide immigrants into good (GPs) and bad (the rest) again straight after
1/ They simply can't stop lying
In a letter to a constituent
@Conservatives
MP Gareth Johnson writes: "[...]when people voted to leave the EU they [...] understood the impact this would have on British citizen elsewhere in the EU as well as EU citizens."
This is a lie.
SUCCESS: about 30 minutes ago the judge at the Royal Court of Justice granted permission to progress with the case against the Govt's immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act.
The Prime Minister has written to voting rights campaigner Harry Shindler to confirm he is scrapping the rule which prevented our British friends to vote in UK elections if they had left the country for more than 15 years.
This is a great victory for our friends
@BritishInEurope
BREAKING: Today, Dutch parliament has voted in favour of a motion that could be crucial to avoid a catastrophic loss of
#citizensrights
for five million EU citizens if the UK leaves the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement.
1/
"I'm French and a train driver for Thameslink. As a key worker I continue to work and all together we are finding our feet at the moment, staying as safe as possible"
Cristine Mariani
#RightThereWithYou
If EU citizens were in any doubt how valued they are - now we know.
@sajidjavid
clearly laying out that the Govt sees immigrants as an asset to be sweated. To generate a "maximum benefit". Not humans - just a subject used for fiscal optimisation via a new immigration system.
"Why did nobody think about the welfare of the Polish student in the class?"
@cliodiaspora
rightly asks following the issue of anti-Polish learning material discovered to be in use across schools in the UK.
Tomorrow MPs are debating the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in Parliament.
The bill will put Settled Status into primary law.
It will also cement the application process into law.
Officially breaking the Prime Minister's referendum pledge of automatic status for EU citizens.
1/
“To jump a queue is a crass thing to do in Britain,” says
@StevePeers
. “It implies an obnoxious breach of rules.” in this excellent summary by
@PaulineBock
of Theresa May's insulting comments about EU citizens yesterday
Dear Andrea Leadsom, EU citizens did not come to the UK under a system of special favours. Freedom of Movement is a reciprocal set of rights enjoyed by many across the EU including 1.2m
@BritishInEurope
who you quite happily throw under the red Brexit bus by the sounds.
“Freedom of movement will end and there will be no special favours for EU citizens over anybody else with whom you might have visa reciprocity”
@andrealeadsom
tells
@bbclaurak
#bbcsp
EU and human rights barrister
@JMPSimor
claims that calling off
#EUElections2019
in the UK would be a breach of EU citizens “fundamental rights” given they would have given up the chance to vote in their own country to vote in Britain.
We do value the work the New European have done today to keep the piece up.
We do however seriously worry about how much pressure the Home Office is putting on the press to suppress unwanted narritive and to force them to add their own misleading messaging.
10/
"I am a Romanian wheelchair engineer working on an NHS contract to repair wheelchairs.
I am seeing on average 10 disabled people at their residence each day.
I am happy that I can still help them in these unprecedented times."
Aurelian Ian Staicu
#RightThereWithYou
~
#COVID19
People often say to us "you'll be fine", "the Home Office will not come around knocking at doors to deport anoyone who misses the Settled Status deadline".
The same Home Office that wants to deport a 2 year toddler born to British parents.
We are right to worry.
Dear Home Office,
For weeks you have accused us of being "inaccurate" and "misleading" when we rightly questioned your intransparent policies.
Now as it turns out, you are the one who have officially found to be misleading. And what is your response? Denial.
1/
We completely disagree with
@ASA_UK
decision on the EU Settlement Scheme campaign, which was factual and complied with all necessary clearance processes for radio advertising.
#EUcitizens
#SettledStatus
Read our statement:
@DanielJHannan
@patel4witham
Dear Daniel,
Thank you for raising this. Settled Status indeed is not automatic as promised by Priti Patel herself during the referendum. We have solutions which have fallen on deaf ears with both the Home Office and the Prime Minister.
#bbcqt
:
@IainDale
on
#Windrush
: "I have spent the last 18 months telling EU citizens calling into my Radio show worried about Settled Status that they will be alright, if I was an EU citizen now I would be quite nervous right now" he says.
We are sorry to inform you that the physical immigration document amendment has been voted down in the House of Lords and will not return to the House of Commons. We got far and we got close - Thank you all for the support you have given us.
The Immigration Bill is back in the House of Lords this afternoon.
After House of Commons rejected the physical document proof for EU citizens clause Lord Oates has tabled a new amendment removing sub clause 2, which called for this physical document proof to be free of charge.
The Home Office has apologised to hundreds of EU citizens seeking settled status in the UK after accidentally sharing their details.
Blaming an "administrative error" for sending an email that revealed 240 personal email addresses.
Message received from one EU citizen applying for Settled Status.
"Simple & straightforward" looks different:
Asked to provide 60 months of evidence but only allowed to upload 9 documents (max total size 8MB).
Now having to wait for caseworker to allow to upload more.
At
@CommonsHomeAffs
evidence session
@YvetteCooperMP
lists the consequences of Home Office failing to process all EU citizens for Settled Status under current system:
These EU citizens would be here unlawfully, unable to work, rent or access the NHS.
All experts agree.
"When I got a job at the car wash, there was no queue to jump" says caller Bela on
@mrjamesob
show on
@LBC
following Theresa May's despicable remarks at
@CBItweets
conference yesterday.
On
#BrexitDay
, we at
@the3milllion
just want to give you a
#bighug
if you are feeling vulnerable.
Many of us will have a heavy heart as the future feels uncertain in the country we call home.
#COVID19
It is great to read that Boris Johnson is being looked after by an Italian specialist, Luigi Camporota.
He is an intensive care medicine consultant & an expert in airway and lung biology.
We EU citizens are
#RightThereWithYou
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,
@MattHancock
, now claiming that EU citizens do not pay taxes like every other UK taxpayer.
This is getting ridiculous.
He should know better, since many of us are working for the NHS and in social care.
We would like to thank
@unisontweets
,
@MoreUnitedUK
,
@theSNP
&
@JCWI_UK
among many. Without their relentless campaigning & raising awareness we would have not changed the Prime Minister's mind over charging EU citizens £65 to re-apply for permission to stay at their home, the UK.
BREAKING: Prime Minister confirming that following our lobbying the £65 Settled Status fee for EU citizens will be scrapped. Any paid fees will be reimbursed!
Guy, thank you for picking this up. UK Govt is on slippery rhetorical slope to sell the
#BrexitDeal
. Demonising EU citizens yet again is not the way and the language and tactics of the referendum in 2016 must not be repeated. It must be nipped in the bud now. We count on you.
EU citizens living, working, contributing to UK communities didn't "jump the queue" & neither did UK nationals in Europe. They were exercising rights which provided freedom & opportunities. We will fight to ensure these continue in the future, especially after any transition.
EU citizens are used as guinea pigs for the new UK digital-only immigration status.
No physical backup to prove their right to work, live & access services.
We know that this will lead to exclusion. Hitting the elderly & most vulnerable hardest
📣Help us to prevent this:
Great
@HSBC_UK
advert. A question we EU citizens would love to hear more often:
Not "Where are you from?" but "Where do you feel at home?"
#ThisIsOurHome
Breaking: End of Freedom of Movement to be postponed!
This is great news and shows that the public pressure we have built over the last weeks is working.
Postponed does not mean the issue is not off the table. A good start but we must keep up the pressure.
1/ Astonishing moment in House of Commons
#BrexitDebate
. After
@sajidjavid
acknowledging that immigration was one of the main drivers for Leave vote
@MikeGapes
points to the Vote Leave leaflet lies about 75 million Turks heading for the UK
Citizens from the European Union (EU) have won the right to challenge a law which prevents people from accessing immigration data held on them by Home Office and other state bodies.
Settled Status "simple & straightforward" application process for EU citizens getting more and more crazy:
"2019
Provide evidence of residence for any 6 months of this year"
Anyone got a time machine?
EU citizens in the UK - Register to Vote!
#the3millionVote
🗳️European Parliament Elections
EU citizens in the UK can vote in the elections in May.
Deadline: 📆May 7th
Here, in this thread, we explain what you do need to do NOW to vote in the UK.
#ThisTimeImVoting
1/
We guess being reminded over Christmas of the 'need to apply' to stay in the country we call home, when we finally want to switch off from the uncertainty Brexit is causing to us 3.6m EU citizens, will go down pretty badly in households across the UK. Poor timing
@ukhomeoffice
.
EU citizens and their families will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 31 December 2020.
Find out more:
#Brexit
.
@Peston
- powerful on
@Channel4News
right now:
"...if they [UK Government] messed up the problem for probably few 10s of thousands of people who came here 30 or 40 years ago, goodness knows how much of a mess they will make of making sure that those EU citizens feel secure here"
There are 3.6m EU citizens in the UK. Over 600k of them are children under 16. Watch how Brexit has impacted them.
EU citizens are your neighbours, friends, colleagues but also the best friend of your daughters & sons at school.
"I want someone to tell me I'm safe in this country - that I'm not going to get kicked out."
More than 600,000 children living in the UK were born in other EU countries, so how do they feel about Brexit and their future?
"Following your comment that I could have shown the same commitment to this country by applying for a piece of paper giving me British citizenship, I have just quit my job as a practice nurse in a GP surgery."
#bargainingchip
#peopleb4politics
.
@joannaccherry
from
@theSNP
asking the Home Secretary to support the Costa Amendment. The SNP was the first party to make ring-fencing of
#citizensrights
of EU citizens in the UK &
@BritishInEurope
party policy & have been relentless in forcing the issue over the last months.
BREAKING: Big win for our campaign!
After months of denial over EU Settlement Scheme's poor design leading to some EEA citizens receiving wrong status
@ukhomeoffice
, without announcing, has changed the process - now asking clearly how long applicant has resided in the UK.
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Too many of us have been told to f++k back off to our shithole recently. Thank you
@InLimboBrexit
for this inspired trend of
#thisismyshithole
with EU citizens posting beautiful pictures of where they grew up. Check it out and keep posting
Did you register for the
#EUelections2019
but haven't received your poll card?
You do not need a poll card to vote🗳️.
Just go to the polling station. If you are on the list you will be able to vote.
1/
The announcement of a “Settled Status” for EU citizens after Brexit is, in effect, telling people who have lived in the UK for years that they were “never really one of us”, the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, has said.
"We must now work towards proper implementation of these [EU citizens'] rights and we won't be accepting any half measures or any form of disguised or veiled discrimination," Barnier told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
EU citizens should not have to re-apply to stay in their home, the UK.
We are fighting to change the application system to a registration system.
✏️Please sign the petition
@GoodwinMJ
Hello Matthew, have you got a source to the 90% statistic? Just asking as the Home Office is unable to provide as it a) has admitted that it has no reliable statistic on number of EU citizens in the UK
and b) the published quantitive number contains double applications.
The myth of EU citizens having more rights than UK citizens - again. We can't vote, out of work benefits restricted to 6 months during the first 5 years. But UK happy to take our taxes & NI and Govt happy to restrict our rights even further. Please come off it
@andrew_lilico
.
House of Lords not buying government line on EU
#citizensrights
.
Lord
@oatesjonny
amendment to change EU Settlement Scheme from application to registration and to provide EU/EEA citizens with physical documents passed with large majority.
Back to House of Commons next week.
There's a moment - first defeat for Johnson's govt - in the Lords over giving EU citizens physical documents to prove they have the right to live here after Brexit
Our congratulations to the happy couple at today's
#RoyalWedding
. May Meghan Markle fall in love with this beautiful country & people as much as the 3.6m EU citizens have who have made the UK their home.