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    10 months ago

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    The number of EU citizens refused entry to the UK since Brexit has increased fivefold, Home Office figures show.

    Yesica Benitez, a graphic designer who is a Spanish citizen, told how she was detained at Luton airport after returning home to renew her passport.

    Freedom for EU citizens to enter the UK to work, live, study or retire ended on 1 January 2021 as a result of Brexit.

    However, it emerged in summer 2021 that the discretion border officials had to refuse entry to EU citizens was being applied in a draconian manner with passengers locked up or expelled.

    Many passengers admitted to being confused about the post-Brexit rules but were subjected to traumatic and humiliating experiences, with one Spanish woman sent to the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre for three days just because she thought she could come to the UK to apply for work.

    Post Brexit, visiting EU citizens are allowed, in most cases, to stay in the UK for six months without applying for a visa, not for 90 days in any 180-day period as an earlier version stated.


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