10 years ago on this day I, a German, arrived in the UK keen to commit my life to this country and make it my forever home. Not only am I now forced to apply to stay, I also have to listen to a British MP, Mark Francois, and his reprehensible Germanophobia on live TV. 1/pic.twitter.com/pAilWtFR1y
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Brits living in Spain, even while we are in the EU have to register
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Settled status is not a registration. It’s a retroactive application process for people already legally in the UK. Many for decades. Applications can be rejected.
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As an EU citizen you must register as a resident if you plan on living in Spain for more than 3 months. You should register in person at the Oficina de Extranjeros (immigration office) or designated police station in the province where you live.https://www.gov.uk/guidance/residency-requirements-in-spain …
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No one would have minded if the UK had done this from the start, all EU citizens are aware they need to be able to support themselves if they wanted to stay longer than 3 months. The UK however never applied this EU law and now everything is the fault of the immigrants!
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So that would have been registration. Now I have to apply after 29 years.
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Totally agree. When you go to live in Spain we know we have to register as living there. EU citizens in UK now have to apply to stay. Totally different in my opinion.
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For goodness' sake! REGISTER and APPLY TO STAY are two totally different things!!
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It’s not registration, it’s an application. So even if you’ve lived here and contributed for decades, you may get rejected. This is the government behind the Windrush scandal, the hostile environment, the Universal Credit disaster. Hardly reassuring.https://twitter.com/JackWDart/status/1088826131803983873 …
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And further diminished rights as "settled status" can be taken away for yet to be determined reasons, including time spent outside the UK
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Would you not agree that it would only be fair that everyone in the UK be forced to apply to remain in their homes in their country of residence.
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You move to a fellow EU country in good faith under FOM, settle down and make your life there & are then told your continued residency depends on jumping through hurdles to register. That's a betrayal of trust, and the potential threat of expulsion lies in the realm of fascism.
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because the difference is you only register, while the UK makes you apply, which is totally different, one is a mere filling of papers, the other you depend of a yes or not to be able to stay in your home
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I was talking about the UK (in the context of the plight of
@cliodiaspora).
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Germany requires everyone in Her.any to register. They don't single out one group for discrimination. The UK is not registering people, it is making them apply. Registration is guaranteed. Applications can be refused.
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In Germany, everybody needs to register at a communal level! Germans, EU citizens, any fellow human being!!!
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Registering is registering, you've already been accepted Applying is applying and applications can be rejected
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It’s reinforcing the dogwhistle that ungrateful foreigners should always be reminded, subconsciously or not, of their second class status in where they have chosen to live in. They’re ‘guests’ that can be ‘tolerated’ and shouldn’t be entitled to things that brits are ‘born’ into.
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Germany requires EVERYONE to register - not just a select group of people. In 15 years here I've not been asked for ID. I notice you don't challenge the baloney from Mr Francoise.
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Me neither in 11 years.
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