My message to the EU citizens in the UK.
Hi everybody
This blog post is going to be advisory and helpful blog post for EU citizens who are living in the UK.
I hope after this blog post, I hope and pray that EU citizens will not have to be in any situations with the Home Office regarding his/her status in the UK. So here is my message to them. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Dear EU citizens
You have all contributed to the United Kingdom. You came to the country with plenty of reasons. Anything from studying to working, making friends, having a life in the UK with many opportunities & making it a home. After all, this country is your home like your home country.
You are more than just an EU citizen living in the UK. You are my family, friend, neighbour, colleague, mentor, teacher, etc. I am happy that I met many of European nationals in the UK. All walks of life. 🙂🇪🇺
It is that the 2016 Brexit vote was very unnecessary & so unfortunate for UK citizens and EU citizens alike. UK citizens living in the EU and EU citizens living here in the UK. Nobody saw it coming. Even the government under David Cameron didn’t even had a plan if the UK had voted to leave the European Union given the lies from many Brexiteers including Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage told so much of many porky pies about the UK’s EU membership.
The UK Brexit Tory governments under Theresa May & Boris Johnson cared about self interests except foreigners which does include many of you guys (if you happened to be EU national living in Britain). It’s almost if that European Union citizens living in the UK does not matter. Being used as an political pawns (bragging chips) in the Brexit negotiations. Because of Brexit, that is when uncertainty started to impact on many EU citizens. Some of them left the country due to Brexit. Immigration was always an divisive topic. Said by small minded, racist and xenophobic bigots in order to divide opinions. Knowing the EU freedom of movement have been beneficial to the UK and the economy.
All I can say as someone who voted against Brexit is that I am sorry. I am sorry that many of you my readers (if you are EU nationals. Living in the UK) have to put up with so much of uncertainty caused by Brexit & the toxic environment of despicable altitude by small minded bigots & neglect from the government who did not guaranteed & protected your rights to remain in the UK since the results of the 2016 EU In/Out referendum. The govt should had guaranteed the rights of EU citizens in the UK in the first place. Instead, Europeans were being used as pawns in the Brexit negotiations.
We the British people are Europeans too. Regardless of how we voted in the referendum 5 years ago on 23rd June 2016. It is that we are no longer EU citizens as of last year.
So if any of you want to continue living in Great Britain, then my advice is that you go to the website to apply for the EU settlement scheme. gov.uk
It is all for EU nationals (except Irish citizens) & non EU nationals like Norwegians, Icelandic, Liechtensteiners and Swiss.
You must already be living in the UK before the end of the Brexit transition period (31st December 2020). Given the deadline to apply for the settlement scheme is 30th June 2021. Not much time left.
Finally on that note, I do not want this to ever happen to European nationals in the United Kingdom by being subjected to deportation. Last thing that everybody needs is another political scandal like the 2018 Windrush scandal when it had affected Caribbean nationals who were coming from former British colonies in the Caribbean to settle in the UK after years of Second World War & that the country was broke financially and economically.
So please guys, apply for the EU settlement scheme before it is too late.
Also the government should had thought of extending the deadline of the EU settlement scheme. Instead, they won’t do so which is not fair.
Thank you for reading my blog post. I really wish that the UK shouldn’t had voted for leaving the EU in the first place. Knowing the cause of anxiety & worries. Anyway, what’s done is done. At least I hope you can continue to live in the United Kingdom. After all, you are welcome. Thank you all for your contribution to this country. 🙂
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This blog post only applies to 3 million EU citizens who are living in the UK.
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