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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Amelia Gentleman

Woman who came to UK as a baby 45 years ago fighting for right to work

Woman in her home viewed from behind looking out of a window.
The woman says she has tried more than 200 times to get through to the Home Office. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

A Spanish-born woman who has lived in England for 45 years is still fighting to secure the right to work in the UK, a year after being sacked from her job in a care home because she was unable to prove she had a valid immigration status.

The 46-year-old woman, who arrived in Britain as an 11-month-old baby and who has never left the country, has been trying to secure EU settled status since her employers dismissed her last June, as they enforced post-Brexit right-to-work regulations.

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