‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status

Demonstrators call on MPs to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

The Home Office faces legal action over a policy to strip residency rights from EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”.

It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error.