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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent

Home Office U-turns on rights of EU citizens who were in UK pre-Brexit

People smiling, holding EU flags and letters spelling ‘home’.
Demonstrators protesting for the rights of EU citizens at the Houses of Parliament in September 2017. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

The Home Office has made a significant U-turn on the rights of EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit.

It is going to reverse a rule it made in August that barred those who mistakenly applied for permanent residency cards after the referendum to make a late application for EU settled status if they were unaware of the specially created immigration scheme.

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