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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

Teacher ‘sick with nerves’ over battle to remain in his Spanish home post-Brexit

Mark Saxby looking at the camera with the beach and sea behind him
Mark Saxby says he has been left high and dry in Spain by Brexit red tape. Photograph: Copyright: Mark Saxby

A British teacher has told how he is “sick” with nerves about returning to his home in Spain amid a three-year battle to get post-Brexit residency after being denied it because he was missing one month’s medical insurance in the first year after the UK left the EU.

Mark Saxby, 56, said he felt “trapped” in a nightmarish limbo, unable to convince anyone that he had the right to live in Spain despite the EU-UK withdrawal agreement guaranteeing residency rights for those in the country before Brexit.

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