Today, on Thursday 11th March the High Court will hold its first hearing over JCWI’s case that the Home Office’s EU Settlement Scheme will leave minorities and vulnerable groups undocumented and violates the Equality Act. 
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is taking legal action to require the Home Secretary to put in place essential safeguards to prevent the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) leaving tens of thousands of EU citizens and non-EU family members undocumented after the June deadline for applications. On Thursday 11th March, the High Court is holding a permission hearing to decide whether the case can proceed. 
The current design of the EUSS has disastrous implications for significant numbers of EU citizens. The Migration Observatory at Oxford found that tens of thousands of people, especially the m…