Thread by @the3million

1/ In April we shared #150questions on #citizensrights & Settled Status for the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK with the Home Office. The immigration minister @carolinenokes promised to provide answers on all questions by the end of June. The deadline passed & we received ZERO answers

2/ The Home Office then promised to provide us with answers to all of our #150questions on #citizensrights & Settled Status by the end of July. You guessed it, we again received ZERO answers.

3/ Instead the Home Office published a Statement of Intent on #citizensrights & Settled Status for the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK. Instead of receiving the pronised answers to our #150questions we were forced to painfully fish answers out ourselves from that document.

4/ Even after painfully matching the Statement of Intent on #citizensrights & Settled Status for the 3.6m EU citizens and our notes from the Home Office user groups with our #150questions we only got 10 satisfactory answers, 40 questions were partly answered & ZERO on the rest.

5/ @carolinenokes you wonder why there is such low trust in the Home Office, you wonder why EU citizens in the UK still feel uncertain about their #citizensrights post Brexit. You not upholding your promises does not help.

6/ Meanwhile, with so many of the #150questions unanswered, the Home Office has been busy legislating for Settled Status - pushed out through secondary legislation, undebated, on July 20th - a few days before parliament going on holiday.

7/ at the same time Home Office announcing live testing of the Settled Status application process in Liverpool. We haven't seen the answers to our #150questions. Have you taken the issues raised by us into account when you made the go live decision @carolinenokes?

8/ @carolinenokes, while you are enjoying your summer holiday during 10 weeks of Parliament recess many of the 3.6m EU citizens in the UK are spending their summer continuing to worry about their #citizensrights. Have a glass of wine on that. /end