Europeans and expatriate Britons fear losing their rights to Brexit

"What will happen? How will retire? What about our children?" Britons who live and work in EU countries and Europeans resident in Britain have raised the questions and anxieties today in the British parliament, calling from London to give them clear answers.

Six months after the referendum on the Brexit, it is unclear what will happen to the 3 million European citizens residing in the United Kingdom and the 1.2-2 million Britons working in one of the other 27 EU countries. You can continue to live, to work, to receive a pension abroad? Visa will require a work permit, residence permit? Or just will have to collect and return home?

Today, the committee for the hearing Brexit eight people "four Europeans residents of Britain and four Britons living abroad" to express the distress of the situation they are experiencing.

"People are worried. There is uncertainty, threatened with deportation, have a sense of ostracism: some ill from stress," said Barbara Ntrozntovits, from Poland, who runs a help center for Eastern Europeans.

"We fear that we will lose our European citizenship, our insurance rights, our pension," said the British Christopher Chandra side permanently living in France since 1973.

The European immigrants in Britain insisted mainly on their anxiety about the "bureaucratic nightmare" that will live in order to obtain a residence permit. The Frenchwoman Anne-Laure Ntonskoua, who works at the University of Bristol, showed a stack of papers: a huge file 85 documents must be completed. Often, questions are asked to answer is ridiculous: "Do you were a terrorist?" And a bunch of evidence required, letters, bills or air tickets discourage people.

If three million Europeans established in Britain presented all of them this request would take 149 years to examine all the files, the Ntonskoua claimed.

The French also expressed regret that "no longer recognizes" the open society in which they chose to live from 30 years ago. "The connector is colder, more distant," confirmed the Ntrozntovits, referring to insults and xenophobic attacks recorded after the referendum.

The Chandra stated that Britons living in Europe have not experienced such behavior. But they have the same concerns, in particular, that will expel them from the country where they live and work and find themselves in a Kafkaesque nightmare. "If I have to go back, what my wife will be my son who is Italian?" asked Gareth Chorsfal, economic adviser in Rome.

British expatriates are more concerned about the pensions and insurance and wonder if they can make private insurance if their deprive free medical coverage. "Threatened their life expectancy," explained Sue Wilson.

"Possibly, hundreds of thousands of Britons having to return to the UK. They are often elderly people. This will exert even more pressure on the NHS" (the British National Health Service), the Chandra insisted.

All of them, however, have asked to take the initiative in the United Kingdom and guarantee first the rights of Europeans, which has refused to do for the moment the Prime Minister Teresa Mei, as has assured Brussels that will do the same and other European countries for British citizens. "It would be a goodwill gesture to start negotiations," said Chandra said. "I do not understand why the 27 will not give the same guarantees" for British living in Europe, said Sue Wilson, concluding: "We have to quickly sort out the issue. Why on June 24 suffering".