Who are these people ?
These people are those like my son who has been here since he was six weeks old and is now forty.Born in the Netherlands he had to take his father's nationality.His passport ran out at the start of the pandemic and he was unable to travel to London to the embassy to renew it therefore his online application was refused.He still can't get an appointment so went through the Windrush scheme but he still had to travel from Norfolk to Lunar House in Croydon to be fingerprinted and have an iris/biometric scan.He now has settled status thank goodness.He could of course apply for British citizenship but at over a grand to do so ,why should he because once he gets his passport renewed he still has freedom of movement,something denied to an awful lot of people due to Brexit.
They seem happy to have taken his income tax all the years he's worked since leaving school ,no questions asked !
My husband had to go through mountains of paperwork to find a letter granting him leave to remain in 1975. Good job he kept it or he would have had to got through the same bullshine.