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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O’Carroll

INSANE: Home office starts crackdown on eu citizens post brexit rights to live in uk | Rare Historical Photos

Home Office sign
The Home Office said the crackdown was aimed at those who had received ‘pre-settled status’ to remain in the UK before Brexit. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures/Getty Images

UK ministers are to start removing post-Brexit residency rights from EU citizens who are no longer “continuously” living in the country.

The initiative is legal under the 2020 Brexit withdrawal agreement, but the decision to use travel data to partly determine absences has raised concerns after the HMRC fiasco in which almost 20,000 parents were stripped of child benefits because of inaccurate Home Office border data.

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