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Home Office starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights to live in UK

The UK Home Office has initiated a crackdown to revoke post-Brexit pre-settled residency rights from EU citizens who fail to meet continuous UK residency requirements, using travel data to assess absences. Concerns have been raised by the Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA), campaign group The3million, and others about the reliability of travel data—highlighted by past HMRC fiascoes involving inaccurate border data—and the lack of transparency in decision-making for status removals.