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UK starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights
UK NewsPolitics•April 11, 2026 at 1:44 PMNational

UK starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights

By Lisa O’Carroll•The Guardian - UK News

Concerns raised over use of travel data in determining if people are ‘continuously’ in Britain after HMRC fiascoUK 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. Continue reading...

Concerns raised over use of travel data in determining if people are ‘continuously’ in Britain after HMRC fiasco

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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