People still think EU nstionals are being treated fairly in the UK?

Just one case, among so many - what is she and her family supposed to do?

'A mum who moved to the UK with her family when she was just two years old has been refused permanent residency in the UK. Anna Amato has lived in Bristol for 55 years after emigrating with her parents Mario and Chiara from Italy. The now 57-year-old attended school and university in Britain and she estimates she has paid over £500,000 in tax during her four decades of working. Despite marrying a British husband, Connell, and having two British children, Anna said she now feels that she is not welcome in her homeland. The Home Office has told her she did not provide enough evidence to document her status – even though Anna’s documents were so heavy they cost £35 to post. The devastated mum said: ‘You are in your country, it is a democracy, all of a sudden you are told after this time no one knows what is going to happen to you. ‘Where do I go? It is really, really scary.’

Read more: metro.co.uk/2019/08/30/mum-lived-uk-55-years-denied-residency-10658918/?ito=cbshare

I look at her, and think OMG that could be me. Or it could be my OH, who arrived in the UK at the age of two - and discovered when we got married, aged 25 - that he was South African and not British - by chance, when he registered our marriage at the British Embassy in Bern ?!?

www.facebook.com/www.JOE.co.uk/videos/2356523024443850/

I thought it was straightforward to register on line? As advertised on the tv? Done in 5 minutes apparently.

Urmstongran you will not get to hear any of the successful applicant stories on here.

I suggest that you read this:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1169986935290519554.html

I thought it was straightforward to register on line? As advertised on the tv? Done in 5 minutes apparently.

If you have the right sort of phone.

And how about an EU national who has lived here for decades but now has dementia and isn't capable of applying? But will, presumably be denied NHS treatment post Brexit, or be required to pay?

MaizieD I have posted numerous times about people I know who have gained their settled status on line easily and quickly.

Nobody on here is interested in "good outcomes" I just get accused of being an "all right jack".

Of course you won't get to hear of any successful applications, GG13, but there are plenty of unsuccessful ones. There shouldn't be ANY. You have voted to take away people's rights and to have them forced through this chancy process. People who have lived and worked in the UK for decades.

Pointing to 'successful applications' does not erase the enormity of what you have done.

And your pathetic response just makes me even more angry at the sheer idiocy and callousness of Leave voters

MaizieD my response was factual not "pathetic".

I am neither callous nor idiotic, but if it makes you feel better by calling people names, so be it.

In this case, this is about a wife and mother of British citizens, who arrived at the age of 2. She stayed at home to look after her kids, worked for several years in NHS who now say they have lost her records- bills, house ownership, etc, in husband's name, and never ever claimed benefits.

So fear for one of my best friends, arrived aged 55, married and now widowed from a Brit, living in a Council bungalow (the one she shared with her British OH, who lived there many years before she arrived) - now with severe oseoporosis and 2 non-mending broken femurs.

Left school at 14, and yet very bright in so many ways, and very creative. Does not have a mobile phone or a computer- 80 next year- and nothing to go back to. Thank goodness she has good friends there to help her- but it so worries me.

Yes GG3 some have managed to do so successfully - mostly people who are currently in work and house owners, etc.

But to deny that there are many genuine cases where application has been turned down- leaving individuals and families in dire and tragic situations IS callous and very uncaring, for sure.

I read your posts on this thread jura2 and struggle to reconcile your caring thoughts with some of your posts on another thread which has just reared its ugly head again. Which is the real jura2?

Jura2 I have never denied that some people are having difficulties, just pointed out that some are not.

A beautiful dream destroyed': Britons in EU on no-deal Brexit-

British citizens living in EU27 nations tell of feeling abandoned as a no-deal exit looms on horizon

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/britons-in-eu-no-deal-brexit

I have never denied that some people are having difficulties, just pointed out that some are not.

The point is, GG13 that NO-ONE should be having difficulties. The fact that 'some aren't' is good enough.

It would be appreciated if Leavers would express some concern (contrition would be too much to ask for) about the awful position some EU nationals in the UK are finding themselves. Did you read the thread I posted the link to? At least one EU national has committed suicide because of worry over their post Brexit status.

But all they do is try to avoid acknowledging the harm their vote has done by telling us that 'some people' have manged to register OK.

The vast majority of cases have been handled well according to figures, some EU citizens have not given the right documents and some others have been subject to what usually happens, bureaucratic delay etc.
What is happening for British citizens living in EU countries I wonder?
Even if (if!) they are given rights to stay, there will be admin mistakes for some, just as here.
Remainers are using this issue as yet another thing to moan about.

OH YES, Lemon.....so true. And can someone kindly answer Lemon's question "what is happening for British Citizens living in EU countries?"

All EU citizens who have either lost their own documents in some way, or bureaucracy has, will need to be patient ( trying though that is) because it will be sorted out.
Tell me when there ever was a case of things going smoothly
For everybody where documents are concerned.
At least the UK is doing something for EU people living here,
We have no idea what’s going on in all the EU countries for our own citizens.

GG13.... some posters just don’t want to listen about things that go right, do they?

varian...oh it's the Guardian innit (smile)

We are less than two months from this theoretical brexit day and how many of the 3 million plus EU citizens in the UK have been granted settled status?

Pantglas1 'I read your posts on this thread jura2 and struggle to reconcile your caring thoughts with some of your posts on another thread which has just reared its ugly head again. Which is the real jura2?'

you'll have to kindly help me here, I have no idea what you are talking about?

Your post 16.52 Thu 5 September on ‘NO Deal is the only way’ thread is the one that doesn’t appear to fit with other posts of yours that I’ve read - does anyone else have access to your GN account?