EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe. The UK internal affairs authority has told at least 100 people that they were given residency rights “in error”, disrupting their lives just as they come to the end of their five-year “pre-settled status” and prepare to upgrade to the permanent “settled status”. A Portuguese woman working in the NHS and researching a PhD in Britain says her life has been turned upside down after being told by the Home Office she was granted post-Brexit rights to live in the country “in error”. She was granted pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme, similar to 1.3 million others who had been in the country for fewer than five years before the UK left the EU. She had expected that this would be upgraded to settled status without issue and was dismayed when the Home Office told her her status was a mistake. “I feel so overwhelmed, because this is going to in