Shitty. I’ve lived here my entire life and i doubt I could prove it to the home office.
This is shitty but unfortunately her children aren’t UKers. UK law is jou sanguinis.
Lease agreements, council tax, bank statements and phone bills – I’ve jumped through these hoops a couple of times over the last 6 years. It’s a pain in the arse, but it’s not particularly difficult.
Only applied in May 2021 too – talk about late in the game.
To *stay* living in Spain using the W.A (if you weren’t already paperworked up, which you should have been) :
1) have a job in Spain and registered address
Or
2) have a registered address and private healthcare.
That was it.
It was a little bit more for people applying new in the transition period but it was only number 2 plus have money to support yourself, since you don’t have a job and aren’t entitled to any benefits.
Shiiiit, if you were paperworked up prior (numbers 1 and 2 were always the criteria), you didn’t have to do anything at all. You *can* swap your old residency card for the new residency card if you want, the exhaustive process is : a passport photo, a simple 1 page form, registered address and it costs a tenner. Lol
The UK government are just being cunts as usual.
Edit: To move here now:
a) Be rich as fuck and buy your way in.
Or
b) Get sponsored for a job that the employer cannot fill from 440 million EU people (they have to prove that), which is doubtful.
Straight up, you used to be able to bugger off to somewhere down south on a 30 quid flight, get a job easy enough, work a couple of summers in a bar or some touristy crap and have a right laugh, piece of piss. Brexiters took that away. I genuinely feel sorry for the younguns in the UK now, they’re trapped in that shithole.
Around this time last year I had a Polish guy in painting my house. We had recently moved in, his prices were good and while his English wasn’t great he was always very quick to let me know of any delays or tell me when he’d do work. Sometimes he’d bring his daughter, Polish born but with a Scottish accent and fluent in Polish – she would do the translating. We were getting quite a bit of work done so we’d chat about minor things, my wife even knocked up a logo for his business for a wee discount on the final bill.
As he was finishing up he asked if I could help him with something – his EU settled status. He hadn’t started it yet and was struggling. I didn’t really know much about it but googled it and tried my best. It’s not as simple as it should be. He doesn’t have the ID needed to automatically get it approved. His daughter’s passport was in Poland and he needed that to proceed. In desperation I phoned the Polish Embassy to get a straight answer and you know what – they were actually very helpful and speedy. I did my best to get it resolved for him and I haven’t heard back if he was successful but you could see it written on his face that it was stressing him out.
We’ve let people like him and his family down and it makes me incredibly sad that we’re so unwelcoming.
As someone with a non eu spouse I’ve been through this shit and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. She’s got ILR now though
Remember when we used to only see each other twice a year when dating due to various visa problems. I was living in a house share and a polish guy moved in, brand new in the UK and he was so excited first time I met him cos his girlfriend who was Romanian was gonna fly over the next week to live with him. She had no job lined up and had never been in before either. This was obviously before brexit.
Now, I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing – but my fucking god did it feel unfair. British and denied a family life cos of wife’s nationality. Luckily, now is all smooth but the HO can really go fuck itself. The rules are racist
I’m not sure why someone who has been in the UK for 5 years would wait until May 2021, a month before the absolute deadline, to apply for settled status? By that point, any problem at all, even the most minor technicality, is bound to cause serious problems because there is absolutely no extra time to sort it out.
Even if Brexit itself, and all the reported problems with citizenship that have come out, didn’t prompt her to apply as soon as possible, then surely the pandemic in early 2020 would have made most people think about filling the form out a few weeks early just in case?
It is such an important thing, why do people take pointless risks with it?
Why would you wait to the last possible moment to submit the application? The programme was open well before that, and she could have got through the process in 2020 when transition meant there would be no immediate issues.
5 million people (way more than were even thought to be in the UK) managed it. so it can’t be that hard.
Nasty racist government of nasty racist country does nasty racist things. More at 11.
The Conservative Party since 2010 have seemingly gone out of their way to betray anyone who ever did the right thing in life.
Yet another idiot who left it too long to apply and is now facing problems.
>applied in May 2021
Fucking lol
I’ve lived in the UK since 2012, but was granted only a pre-settled status because I didn’t have enough “solid”, unbroken evidence of residence since most of the bills were in my husband’s name. However, people really should’ve gotten on with this ASAP. I’m a chronic procrastinator with many, many issues, but immigration etc issues shoot to the top of the priority list immediately.
As an Eastern European, who moved to the UK in 2014 and went through the settled-status/naturalisation process, I feel compelled to say that the UK government absolutely made it ridiculously easy to obtain the settled status (I did that as soon as I was eligible, in 2019). I am not entirely sure why people took so long to get this done – no one likes life’s admin but we all have to get on with it.
Furthermore, naturalisation in this country is also a straight-forward process. Where I come from it is more complicated to get a mortgage than it is to get citizenship in the UK.
I have also lived and worked in Germany and Belgium and believe me when I say that all life admin is a million times easier and faster here than over there – really no reason to complain about this.
Makes me worry about myself and my EU partner. We want him to move in with me in the UK after saving up a few more months of money. He’s not lived in the UK before and only visited a few times, so I think it will be really hard for him to get a visa.
It’s a shame that although we are in a long-term and committed relationship we still can’t apply for a partnership visa. I don’t believe in marriage, but boy would it help us out a bunch in this situation.
if she was somalian they would have given her a free house
I came to this country on 2019 and applied for pre-settle straight away.
Why wait so long? She had years of time to get everything she needed.
I have a pay wall so can someone explain why she has been refused? Is she married to a Brit Cit?
Its very strange given that 96% of application were approved and it seems very late in the day to be reporting on it now?
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Shitty. I’ve lived here my entire life and i doubt I could prove it to the home office.
This is shitty but unfortunately her children aren’t UKers. UK law is jou sanguinis.
Lease agreements, council tax, bank statements and phone bills – I’ve jumped through these hoops a couple of times over the last 6 years. It’s a pain in the arse, but it’s not particularly difficult.
Only applied in May 2021 too – talk about late in the game.
To *stay* living in Spain using the W.A (if you weren’t already paperworked up, which you should have been) :
1) have a job in Spain and registered address
Or
2) have a registered address and private healthcare.
That was it.
It was a little bit more for people applying new in the transition period but it was only number 2 plus have money to support yourself, since you don’t have a job and aren’t entitled to any benefits.
Shiiiit, if you were paperworked up prior (numbers 1 and 2 were always the criteria), you didn’t have to do anything at all. You *can* swap your old residency card for the new residency card if you want, the exhaustive process is : a passport photo, a simple 1 page form, registered address and it costs a tenner. Lol
The UK government are just being cunts as usual.
Edit: To move here now:
a) Be rich as fuck and buy your way in.
Or
b) Get sponsored for a job that the employer cannot fill from 440 million EU people (they have to prove that), which is doubtful.
Straight up, you used to be able to bugger off to somewhere down south on a 30 quid flight, get a job easy enough, work a couple of summers in a bar or some touristy crap and have a right laugh, piece of piss. Brexiters took that away. I genuinely feel sorry for the younguns in the UK now, they’re trapped in that shithole.
Around this time last year I had a Polish guy in painting my house. We had recently moved in, his prices were good and while his English wasn’t great he was always very quick to let me know of any delays or tell me when he’d do work. Sometimes he’d bring his daughter, Polish born but with a Scottish accent and fluent in Polish – she would do the translating. We were getting quite a bit of work done so we’d chat about minor things, my wife even knocked up a logo for his business for a wee discount on the final bill.
As he was finishing up he asked if I could help him with something – his EU settled status. He hadn’t started it yet and was struggling. I didn’t really know much about it but googled it and tried my best. It’s not as simple as it should be. He doesn’t have the ID needed to automatically get it approved. His daughter’s passport was in Poland and he needed that to proceed. In desperation I phoned the Polish Embassy to get a straight answer and you know what – they were actually very helpful and speedy. I did my best to get it resolved for him and I haven’t heard back if he was successful but you could see it written on his face that it was stressing him out.
We’ve let people like him and his family down and it makes me incredibly sad that we’re so unwelcoming.
As someone with a non eu spouse I’ve been through this shit and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. She’s got ILR now though
Remember when we used to only see each other twice a year when dating due to various visa problems. I was living in a house share and a polish guy moved in, brand new in the UK and he was so excited first time I met him cos his girlfriend who was Romanian was gonna fly over the next week to live with him. She had no job lined up and had never been in before either. This was obviously before brexit.
Now, I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing – but my fucking god did it feel unfair. British and denied a family life cos of wife’s nationality. Luckily, now is all smooth but the HO can really go fuck itself. The rules are racist
I’m not sure why someone who has been in the UK for 5 years would wait until May 2021, a month before the absolute deadline, to apply for settled status? By that point, any problem at all, even the most minor technicality, is bound to cause serious problems because there is absolutely no extra time to sort it out.
Even if Brexit itself, and all the reported problems with citizenship that have come out, didn’t prompt her to apply as soon as possible, then surely the pandemic in early 2020 would have made most people think about filling the form out a few weeks early just in case?
It is such an important thing, why do people take pointless risks with it?
Why would you wait to the last possible moment to submit the application? The programme was open well before that, and she could have got through the process in 2020 when transition meant there would be no immediate issues.
5 million people (way more than were even thought to be in the UK) managed it. so it can’t be that hard.
Nasty racist government of nasty racist country does nasty racist things. More at 11.
The Conservative Party since 2010 have seemingly gone out of their way to betray anyone who ever did the right thing in life.
Yet another idiot who left it too long to apply and is now facing problems.
>applied in May 2021
Fucking lol
I’ve lived in the UK since 2012, but was granted only a pre-settled status because I didn’t have enough “solid”, unbroken evidence of residence since most of the bills were in my husband’s name. However, people really should’ve gotten on with this ASAP. I’m a chronic procrastinator with many, many issues, but immigration etc issues shoot to the top of the priority list immediately.
As an Eastern European, who moved to the UK in 2014 and went through the settled-status/naturalisation process, I feel compelled to say that the UK government absolutely made it ridiculously easy to obtain the settled status (I did that as soon as I was eligible, in 2019). I am not entirely sure why people took so long to get this done – no one likes life’s admin but we all have to get on with it.
Furthermore, naturalisation in this country is also a straight-forward process. Where I come from it is more complicated to get a mortgage than it is to get citizenship in the UK.
I have also lived and worked in Germany and Belgium and believe me when I say that all life admin is a million times easier and faster here than over there – really no reason to complain about this.
Makes me worry about myself and my EU partner. We want him to move in with me in the UK after saving up a few more months of money. He’s not lived in the UK before and only visited a few times, so I think it will be really hard for him to get a visa.
It’s a shame that although we are in a long-term and committed relationship we still can’t apply for a partnership visa. I don’t believe in marriage, but boy would it help us out a bunch in this situation.
if she was somalian they would have given her a free house
I came to this country on 2019 and applied for pre-settle straight away.
Why wait so long? She had years of time to get everything she needed.
I have a pay wall so can someone explain why she has been refused? Is she married to a Brit Cit?
Its very strange given that 96% of application were approved and it seems very late in the day to be reporting on it now?