Ingles

Todays Head line off the PT National paper Pùblico

Thirty Thousand Foreigner's living in Portugal in risk off expulsion

Capa - Público - CapasJornais

RichardHenshall

I don't see any link between Brexit and expelling undocumented immigrants from Pakistan or Guinea-Bissau.

tooboocoo

Quite!

Ingles

You would be astonished as too how many Europeans & other's ,are living here without any form off legal documentation !!!

chislenko

So the story is if you are legal you are fine. That really has nothing to do with Brexit.

Ingles

Have it your way , if you can't foresee what a complete b's up the UK are making off the negotiations & the knock on effect if they carry on the road there on now !
Then live your life & forget about it !

scrubbedexpat142

In what is probably a first for the British Embassy in Hungary, a Town Hall meeting was held at the Novotel Budapest on January 22 to keep British nationals up-to-date with citizensʼ rights in Hungary post-Brexit...."We do not want, nor do we expect, a ʼno dealʼ outcome," Lindsay said, but he did have one piece of advice: "It is very important British nationals make sure they are correctly registered over the next year." The ambassador recommended starting the process as soon as possible to ensure people can benefit from the agreements.

scot47

Ingles

Why do those "Foreigners" have an apostrophe ? Is that the reason for deporting them ?

Ingles

You may or may not be aware off this thread !!!!

http://britishexpats.com/forum/take-...-wrong-910197/

007Steve

There you are right Ingles.
But, leaving aside the sensationalist headline, in the case of Brits who do abuse the PT system it should be self-solving. Once their passports expire they have a choice - live totally off-grid - which is very difficult or re-enter the UK, where they'll probably be on the special HMRC file of people they want a wee-chat with..... But yes, there are a number who'll have a problem.

GeniB

Yes well this has been known for quite awhile... The ex- British Ambassador to Portugal Kirsty Hayes pointed it out when she first came to talk about Brexit to British ex-pats in the Algarve and Lisbon etc.. Some people will choose to live 'off grid' in any country they move to. it's being a parasite really. taking and giving nothing back. Usually they run out of options in the end,but it is entirely up to them. if they take that risk

Red Eric

And here is that headline, in Portuguese and linked to the article : Trinta mil imigrantes que trabalham e contribuem estão em risco de expulsão

So it's talking about people who are both working and paying taxes in Portugal, ie not being a parasite really nor giving nothing back. Just unable, for one reason or another, to prove that they entered the country in a regular manner (which, due to a recent change in the law, would give them a path to regularizing their status even if they hadn't meantime had permission to remain and to work).

It's nothing to do with UK or other EU citizens "living under the radar", who wouldn't be expelled even if the authorities did bother enough about them not registering their presence to do anything at all about it.

Red Eric

I can't imagine how passports might have any relevance, whatever the circumstances. It'd be perfectly easy to obtain another UK passport as a non-registered resident of Portugal.

scot47

Here is another piece of DOOM and GLOOM

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/new...road-to-brexit

Red Eric

You're going to have to try that one on another forum Scotty. It won't wash on here, I'm afraid - we're all aware that PT healthcare is available to all foreign residents on exactly the same terms as to PT citizens, so private health insurance is a matter of pure choice for those who want it. If the S1 reciprocal charging comes to an end (and the UK government has indicated that it doesn't intend to ditch it - but let's imagine) then the PT health service would pick up the tab.

Thanks for the contribution, though