Citizens of the EU who want to stay in the UK after Brexit have become so disillusioned by the application process that they have tried to register under the emergency Windrush scheme instead. Applicants for settled status claim that the process is “Kafkaesque” — and many have raised concerns about the Home Office’s decision not to issue documentation at the end to prove they are allowed to remain in the UK. “There is a sense of desperation,” said Baroness Kennedy, the barrister and Labour peer who chaired the House of Lords EU justice subcommittee until earlier this month. “People, particularly the elderly, do not trust a purely digital system. They don’t trust that there is a Home Office computer that has their number, and whenever…

Source: The Times July 20, 2019 23:06 UTC