Sarah ManavisVerified account

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.