• The way the Government designed the EUSS means that EU citizens and non-EU family members (EEA+ citizens) who missed the deadline automatically fell out of status and rights and became undocumented migrants overnight.  
  • Estimations suggest this could be tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. 
  • We know that it is the most marginalised – older and disabled people, looked-after children, Roma communities and survivors of domestic abuse - who are the most likely to have slipped through the cracks. 
  • These EEA+ citizens are now subject to a series of policies commonly called the Hostile Environment, which criminalise work, bar them from accessing free healthcare and the public safety net and make it illegal to rent a home, access homelessness assistance, open a bank account or obtain a driver’s license.