Children removed to Slovakia

onomatopoeia99

MrsStepford said:

 She has a non-British child to consider too.and she and the child might well have been deprived of free NHS care and benefits for example. 

"Might well"?  Based on what?  Eligibility for NHS care is based on being ordinarily resident in the UK, not on citizenship, paying taxes or anything else.  They were ordinarily resident until she took them to another country and by her own actions potentially removed their eligibility.

Why do people spread malicious nonsense like this?  People might read what you wrote and actually believe it.

castle96

things still raw and up in the air. Xmas willl be a testing time (for them all!)

MrsStepford

onomatopoeia99 said:

MrsStepford said:

 She has a non-British child to consider too.and she and the child might well have been deprived of free NHS care and benefits for example. 

"Might well"?  Based on what?  Eligibility for NHS care is based on being ordinarily resident in the UK, not on citizenship, paying taxes or anything else.  They were ordinarily resident until she took them to another country and by her own actions potentially removed their eligibility.

Why do people spread malicious nonsense like this?  People might read what you wrote and actually believe it.

A family member in the NHS tells me that their hospital has a manager who checks that patients are eligible to receive free inpatient care. Ordinarily Resident post Brexit means Indefinite Leave to Remain or Settled Status for EU citizens. She told me that children born and brought up in UK by Barbadian parents were being charged for care as adults as they didn't have UK citizenship. There have been cases mentioned in the Guardian where people born abroad and who travelled with passports from their mother's country, were refused re-entry after a holiday.

There was a showjumper who wanted to represent Britain in a team. His British father was serving in the British Army in Germany, and met and married a German woman. His son was born in a German hospital. When he wanted a British passport he was refused, despite his birth being registered in the British consulate. It took many appeals before he got a passport.

Citizens of EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland who have moved to the UK since 1 Jan 2021 for more than six months have to pay for NHS treatment. EU and EEA citizens who were living here before 31 December 2020, had to apply for Settled Status before 30 June 2021 and get it, or they too would have to pay for NHS care. It's all on gov.UK - look for NHS entitlements migrant health guide.

Brexit changed NHS eligibility big time.