Hello, hi, can I borrow you for a minute? Because I'd like to talk about how I'm basically being held hostage in the UK while the Brexit negotiations are taking place and it makes me want to scream.
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So I've been living in the UK for eight and a half years, right? Four of those were spent studying. Am French, so had nothing to do when I moved here beyond buying a one-way Eurostar ticket, you know the drill.
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Now, say I'd quite like to move abroad for a bit. Not forever - just a few years, in another European city, where I could keep on writing about politics, you can probably guess which one.
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Obviously I'd want to have some sort of confirmed legal status here first, right? I'm not an idiot. We have no idea what EU immigration will look like post-Brexit so might as well stay on the safe side.
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Getting full British citizenship is an option, but it takes a *lot* of time and a *lot* of money, neither of which I have, and anyway TL;DR I don't want to have a British passport because I'm not British, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
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Now, permanent residency sounds like a good option, doesn't it? Cheaper, easier, and, as far as I can remember, I could leave the UK for up to five years after getting it then come back without a problem. Great!
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So I had a look at the permanent residency guidelines - I qualify, all good - except, EXCEPT, these lines are now on the website:pic.twitter.com/Lwas3RKrLy
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IN SUMMARY: there's no point in me applying for permanent residency because it will become redundant after Brexit. I also cannot apply for what it'll be replaced by because we don't know what it is. We also don't know *when* it'll be replaced by it.
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I'm in the same situation. My only hope is that surely by March 2019 they will need to have that shit sorted. Can't assume this could last much longer.
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