Dear Sir,
In relation to Mark Townsend's report on "Fears for rights of EU citizens still waiting for settled status", the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, which is the umbrella body for the largest Polish organizations in the UK since 1947, has written to the Prime Minister urging him to extend the deadline for applying for settled status by 6 months. The Federation listed 10 examples of how the Prime Minister's failure to keep his promise to all EU citizens in the UK that their future would be safe after Brexit, is made worse by enforcement of the current deadline. While 5 million have applied successfully, the settled status registration exercise has revealed how little is known of the numbers of EU citizens in this country. Hundreds of thousands hitherto legally resident EU citizens and their families, whose applications have not yet been made or still languish in the Home Office, are likely to face a bleak future of rejection, exploitation and blackmail after June 30th. and could even impede uptake of anti-covid vaccinations, as well as increase community tensions and ensure further unnecessary conflict between the UK and the EU.
Yours faithfully,
Wiktor Moszczynski
Spokesman Federation of Poles in Great Britain.
Letter published in The Observer 13/06/2021
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