Today, Tuesday 30 June, we have written with 28 other leading migrants’ rights campaigners to the Home Secretary, calling for reforms to the EU Settlement Scheme to protect EU citizens and non-EU family members against the harmful impacts of Covid-19.
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Re: Protecting EU citizens and families members from COVID-19
Dear Home Secretary,
We write to you as organisations that work with, are led by, support and represent EU citizens and their families resident in the UK. We strongly welcomed your statement that, “the UK continues to put the health and wellbeing of people first and nobody will be punished for circumstances outside of their control”, and hope the Government will adopt this approach in all instances where COVID-19 poses a threat to migrants’ rights.
However, we are concerned that the Government has not taken appropriate steps or made the adequate adjustments to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) necessary to …