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Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK | This is our home | Campaigning to protect pre-Brexit rights | info@the3million.org.uk

Monique Hawkins, acting chief executive of the3million, said the impact of the Home Office’s retrospective review was devastating for many. "People applied to the EU settlement scheme in good faith...by building their lives in the UK and putting down roots." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens are being told they have no right to remain

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Our Community Organiser, Ola Sobieraj, recently took part in the Justice Together Festival of Sharing, along with 80 people from across the migrant justice sector. We saw powerful lived experience leadership, new ideas and collaborations emerging through creativity and a real sense of solidarity.

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As closer relations with the EU become talked about once again, we urge the government to ensure that the promises made to EU citizens in the UK under the Withdrawal Agreement are properly implemented. Our rights cannot be left in limbo.

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Have you received a "grant in error" on your EUSS application? We are currently compiling cases to identify what action needs to be taken to ensure that the rights of EU citizens in the UK which were guaranteed under the Withdrawal Agreement are protected.

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Have you been denied boarding through no fault of your own, because your airline, train or ferry didn't follow Home Office guidance to check your eVisa, or refused to check your share code? We are gathering evidence to try and get the government to take action. Report it to us!

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Are you in a family with step-children, and did you and/or your spouse come to the UK after 2017? If so would you be willing to help in a study into the impacts of immigration policies?

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The Immigration and Asylum Bill undermines the rights of migrants and risks seeing even more families ripped apart. We stand in solidarity with all migrants. Once again we treated as if we are somehow "second class" by the way we are treated. You can read our statement below👇

At a time when we need to be looking forward at how we welcome migrants and ensure rights are protected, the immigration and asylum bill is rolling back not only those rights but the very principles of fairness and tolerance which it is claimed to support.
Routes to settlement are already arduous and costly. Families face significant obstacles in being together. Those from already marginalised communities face additional obstacles. All of this mounts up to create a system which unjustly treats those building their lives here, working here, forming parts of our community and our friends, as an “other”, as “second class”. 
This is a bill which rather than helping to heal the divides in our country, will only make them worse. It tells migrants that they are unwanted. That they must always have to “prove themselves” in ways which nobody else would be expected to.
If the UK is truly to move forward then it needs to recognise that migrants are essential to doing that. Creating a system which tells us that we are unwanted unless the state can gain something from us undermines not only our lives, but the whole country.

EU citizens continue to face a fight for our rights. People continue to be excluded from gaining status, and even when they do many continue to be denied rights. We need your support to continue fighting for for EU citizens' rights.

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“EU citizens ... told before the Brexit referendum that our rights would be respected... Now we are being told that in a couple of years time a potential Reform government could rip up our rights entirely. The UK is our home.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’

Exclusive: Rights group says Nigel Farage’s party is reneging on promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign

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It has been a busy day in the heat, but we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped support us. Today's mass lobby saw us meet with MPs and their teams, raising awareness about the issues EU citizens continue to face ten years on after Brexit.

Image of attendees at the mass lobby holding up letters spelling "This Is Our Home"Pictures of team members and attendees with MPs and members of their team, including Olivia Blake, Steve Wishart, Helen Maguire and Will Foster's assistant, Alex WarrenPicture of journalists filming our team and attendeesPicture of attendees holding up the EU and the3million flags with a caption saying "Ten years on there is still so much work to be done, but we know with everyone’s support we will protect the rights EU citizens were promised"

We are at parliament on the 10th anniversary of Brexit to call for EU citizens rights to be protected. Ten years ago we were promised nothing would change, yet so much has. We, and other migrants, have seen our rights eroded. We will meet with MPs to raise awareness of the issues.

Picture of mass lobby attendants holding up letters saying "This is our home"