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Monique Hawkins @monlouhawk
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So I'm an employer interviewing a candidate after March 2019. They're an EU citizen, haven't got a settled status document to show me, but assure me they've been here years, just haven't applied for the document yet as there's a grace period anyway. 1/7
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
I ask them why they've not applied yet, they explain: "well there's @the3million people needing to apply for this document in a very short space of time, and the scheme was only recently available. I was planning to do it soon, but.. " 2/7
"…wasn't expecting my previous employer to go bust, so wasn't expecting to be here in a position applying for jobs. Apparently there's now a 4 month waiting time to get proof of settled status - but I really need to find employment sooner than that." 3/7
Gosh. So what do I do as employer? I know I'll face hefty fines for employing someone I shouldn't. 5 years jail and unlimited fine apparently! gov.uk/penalties-for-… 4/7
Is this person telling the truth? What if they only arrived in the UK post March 2019, and in fact needs a mandatory work permit? Shall I ask them for proof of being entitled to settled status? 5/7
The problem is, I'm not so sure what the Home Office requires as evidence of - so I'm not confident of getting it right - what if I decide this person is entitled to settled status, but then in a few months time the Home Office reject them? Would I still face a fine? 6/7
I don't want to be discriminating against EU citizens - but this feels really risky to me. And the British candidate I interviewed yesterday, although not quite as good as this person, will probably do the job well enough. I think I'll play it safe and employ them instead. 7/7
Ps just want to make it clear, I'm not ACTUALLY an employer myself. Ran out of characters in first tweet to say "imagine I'm an employer". But that's what I meant.
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A quick personal thread about my experience, as an ordinary EU citizen in the UK, of trying to be heard by those in charge of Brexit negotiations, on both sides of the channel. There has been a shocking difference between the two sides. 1/
In February 2017, I was part of a small group of volunteers within @the3million who wrote a letter about our Brexit worries for EU citizens in the UK. We sent it to the 3 Brussels institutions and David Davis. 2/
Within a fortnight of our letter, Michel Barnier wrote back to us, inviting us to a meeting on 28 March 2017, which just so happened to be the day before article 50 was triggered. 3/
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Thread on why @Theresa_May's Hostile Environment policy could potentially work in the Netherlands but cannot possibly work in the UK.

And why @David_Goodhart (of Anywheres vs Somewheres) is fundamentally wrong about ID cards.
The STATED objective of the Hostile Environment is to remove illegal immigrants.

I'll try and explain why in fact this is impossible in the UK, and rather the ACTUAL objective of the Hostile Environment is to make life hell for UNDOCUMENTED people. ANY undocumented people.
Two facts first that we need to agree on.

First, a crucial one - in order to remove illegal immigrants, you need to be able to distinguish not just between illegal immigrants and legal IMMIGRANTS, but between illegal immigrants and legal CITIZENS.

The difference is NOT trivial.
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1/ We at @The3Million are very grateful to the support given by everyone who is an #EUcitizensChampion supporting the @eucitizenschamp campaign.
2/ The money allows us to reach & inform more EU citizens across the country doing our part in ensuring no one is left behind.
3/ For every 1% the UK Government fails to process during the Settled Status application period 36,000 EU will fall into the #HostileEnvironment - with the potential of dwarfing the #Windrush scandal
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Hi @ukhomeoffice, Time to talk! Based on what I am being told by fellow EU citizens, as well as evidence I have seen myself, the second phase of the #SettledStatus trial is marred by significant problems. Care to comment? I am aware of: 1/
❌ Endless accounts of the passport scan on the app not working.
This is not a big surprise given we already knew the chip required on Android devices needs to be a newer one. So not only does the app not work on iphones, it works only on some Android phones. 2/
❌ A delay in the trial being opened for the next cohort of EU citizens.
This we could already guess too given recent comments by @carolinenokes about what she called "several technical bugs" having to be resolved. bit.ly/2Rsvbna 3/
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1/ Let's talk EU citizens, #citizensrights uncertainty, Home Office, Settled Status outreach & money (and Govt profits from it). It's been 866 of EU citizens being left #inLimbo and the Home Office are already profiteering from this massively...
2/ Latest Home Office numbers show that the number of EU citizens taking British nationality has soared by almost 200% since the referendum. In the year ending June 2016 just over 15k EU citizens took British citizenship compared with over 44k in in the year ending June 2018.
3/ Taking British citizenship is not cheap. Currently £1,330 per adult & £1,012 per child. In 2017 the cost of processing the application to the Home Office was only £386. Blended this is generating a whopping profit margin of 68% to the Home Office.
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1/ Let's see how many of the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK are going to get 'caught up in it [the #HostileEnvironment]' @10DowningStreet?
2/Private landlords already uncertain about extending rental agreements for EU citizens post March 2019 @@RLA_PEARL research shows
news.rla.org.uk/brexit-uncerta…
3/ Employers are already uncertain about hiring EU citizens - this will only worsen during the transition period when many EU citizens will not yet hold Settled Status. And it will be absolute chaos under no-deal Brexit
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
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Is this really what we've come to? After two years? Tonight has upset me and a good number of other EU citizens profoundly reading tweets like this one. How is crashing a Newsletter designed *solely* to *inform* non-UK EU citizens about their future and settled status helping? 1/
We knew the government doesn't care about us. But to read the above and tweets like these ... 2/
... or these ... 3/
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1/ Lawful residence in the context of Settled Status and why government claim that EU #citizensrights of ALL 3.4m EU citizens are sorted is incorrect - a thread
2/ in today's #PMQs the Prime Minister said the following:

"I’m absolutely clear that EU citizens living lawfully in the UK today will be able to stay"

See those little words there: "living lawfully"
3/ to the British public this may sound reasonable - those not deeply involved in the matter will hear 'lawfully' as being EU citizens who are not criminals. An assumption easily made.
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