It's shameful that one in three EU children has been refused permanent residency
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One topic that didn’t come up – the questions were no doubt carefully vetted – was the government’s appalling treatment of some of these children’s classmates from the EU, who are being refused the right to stay permanently in the UK. The latest figures from the Home Office shockingly reveal that 116,000 children from the EU have been refused permanent residency. Boris Johnson and other leading Brexiteers, including Priti Patel, promised during the Leave campaign that EU citizens living in the UK would be automatically granted indefinite leave to stay. It’s been widely documented that even EU citizens who have lived in Britain for decades are often being refused the right to stay permanently.
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