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šŸšØWeā€™re going to court!

The EU Settled Status scheme deadline is looming. Tens of thousands of vulnerable people face being criminalised overnight.

The Home Office must #ScrapTheDeadline & ensure no one loses status. Please chip in https://t.co/0FydGTuDHx

Our case [thread]

 2/ The deadline on the EU Settled Status scheme is a cliff edge. Overnight, tens of thousands of people could be criminalised just for living their lives and will face the full horrors of the hostile environment. #ScrapTheDeadline
3/ People who are already vulnerable are at highest risk of getting left out. The risks are well documented. E.g. This paper by @MigObs explains how victims of abuse and exploitation, and people who are isolated are at highest risk: https://t.co/m9egJFwwFi
4/ Other organisations have sounded the alarm on other discriminatory impacts. @npcthinks found that ā€œfemale EU migrants are at greater risk of failing to access their settled status than male EU migrantsā€ https://t.co/2owPFTyZ1o ā€¦
5/ ā€¦while @coram set out the risks of the EU Settlement scheme for children, especially looked-after children https://t.co/n4WAgWhF0J and @gmiau researched into barriers for looked-after children https://t.co/MoUob9oAOM...
6/ @RomaSupport research in June 2020 highlighted ā€œsubstantial barriers to Roma people gaining knowledge of and access to this systemā€ https://t.co/Go96tysNvY
7/@publiclawprojct also warned that the EU Settled Status scheme has prioritised speed at the expense of important legal safeguards https://t.co/LyU9ViYMD5 People who are already marginalised are likely to be less able to fight their corner when the Home Office gets it wrong.
8/ The Home Office is ignoring evidence that shows vulnerable people are more likely to be left behind and is pressing ahead with a scheme that will criminalise innocent people. This is the same attitude that led to the Windrush scandal.
9/ It took a 12-month battle to get the Home Office to share its Policy Equality Statement - its assessment of the risks of discrimination in the scheme.

But no wonder they wanted to keep it secret - they missed out major, well-documented risks - https://t.co/Bg4nT6F4EV
10/ The Home Office isnā€™t even collecting data on whoā€™s applying, so it can assess whether marginalised groups are struggling to access the scheme. Without this basic information, how can it know whoā€™s missing, or take steps to fix that?
11/ We believe the Home Secretary is acting unlawfully. The deadline is a cliff edge, with huge consequences for missing it creates a risk. The risk is greatest for those who struggle to access the scheme ā€“ people who are already marginalised.
12/ Fixing this means granting all EEA nationals & their families automatic Settled Status ā€“ exactly what was promised in 2016.
13/ Without that fix, the Home Secretary must #ScrapTheDeadline for applications, start monitoring whoā€™s losing out, & proactively help those people secure status.

Campaigners have asked nicely but the Home Office wonā€™t listen.

Help take this to court
https://t.co/0FydGTuDHx

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