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A statutory body set up to guarantee EU citizens rights after Brexit has sharply criticised the Home Office for not fully implementing a ruling by the high court in 2022 designed to protect millions of people whose jobs and homes could be put at risk.
The court ruled that the Home Office was wrong to force people who had been in the country for fewer than five years before Brexit, with pre-settled status under the EU-UK withdrawal agreement, to apply again for full settled status once their current status expired.
The court ruled this was “wrong in law” and now the Independent Monitoring Authority says the Home Office is still not implementing the rule, but merely giving someone with pre-settled status an automatic extension of two years.
The IMA said the Home Office move “does not go for enough” and it is concerned that EU citizens with pre-settled status visible on their documents could risk their job or home.
In a statement Miranda Biddle, the IMA’s chief executive said:
It is crucial that in implementing the judgment the uncertainties being faced in relation to citizens’ ability to live, work and raise their families in the UK are addressed and concluded.
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