{"id":269,"date":"2021-03-24T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/?p=269"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:41:03","slug":"concerns-around-settled-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.vandragt.com\/society\/concerns-around-settled-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns around Settled Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been keeping myself updated with the news around the Settled Status changes coming into effect in less than 100 days, and have successfully received it some time ago. However, I&#8217;m trying to find answers to a few concerns I&#8217;m having, and possibly correct my misunderstanding of the issues around this badly thought through concept of proving status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about&#8230; <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Say a person with Settled Status requires urgent hospital treatment, how do they prove settled status if they&#8217;re not in a position to give a share code?<\/strong> for example, seriously injured without partner present, phone running out of juice etc. Do I have to be able to to the government website to get a share code after a car accident?<\/li><li><strong>How does anyone requiring proof of Settled Status determine whether the person is an EU citizen settled in the UK, or a British national with a foreign sounding name for example? <\/strong>They can&#8217;t always know the nationality of the person, so have to make a judgement on whether a request for status is required &#8212; and this can only be based by making a discriminating judgement then? Such as &#8220;does the name sound non-british&#8221;, skin colour, accent.<\/li><li><strong>If so, does that not make the process discriminatory<\/strong> at it&#8217;s core, and against the law?<\/li><li><strong>How does someone know the difference between a British person with an EU sounding name, and an EU person that convinces the other party a sharecode is not required<\/strong>, without requiring all British people to present a form of identification? Does that mean everyone will need to carry identification of nationality?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I&#8217;m happy to be corrected on my understanding, but I&#8217;m worried around vulnerable people (British and otherwise) being refused access to essential services and human rights in certain cases; and being discriminated against, structurally, in less than 100 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I get any answers I will update this post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been keeping myself updated with the news around the Settled Status changes coming into effect in less than 100 days, and have successfully received it some time ago. However, I&#8217;m trying to find answers to a few concerns I&#8217;m having, and possibly correct my misunderstanding of the issues around this badly thought through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}