MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Home Office’s reaction came after Finnish-born academic Eva Johanna Holmberg, who is married to a UK citizen, said that she had received a letter on Thursday saying that she would be removed from the United Kingdom under Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 since she failed to prove that she was "exercising Treaty rights in the United Kingdom."
"A limited number of letters were issued in error and we have been urgently looking into why this happened. We are contacting everyone who received this letter to clarify that they can disregard it. We are absolutely clear that the rights of EU nationals living in the UK remain unchanged," the spokesperson said, as quoted by the Guardian newspaper.
According to the newspaper, the Home Office has admitted sending some 100 letters threatening deportation, although it did not specify the number of EU nationals who had received them.
The issue of EU nationals residing in the United Kingdom has been raised amid the United Kingdom’s impending exit from the continental bloc. In late July, London laid out a document stipulating that the EU nationals residing in the United Kingdom would be able to apply for "settled status."
Brexit negotiations officially kicked off on June 19, and are due to be completed by the end of March 2019.
