EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

The trouble is in the UK we have no official residence. Many parts of the world require you to register where you live (after something like 3 months) with the authorities and keep them updated when you move. That kind of thing has always been resisted for lots of good reasons but it means it is much harder to know who is living here, how long for etc. It's inevitable that when you try and infer residence from a collection of other databases gathered for other reasons it's going to be a mess.

my mother in law, a 69yr old Italian, has had to go through the windrush process after being refused residency using the settled status app.

she's lived here since she was a child, worked for the NHS and payed national insurance for 30yrs, retired and receives pension etc.

it's been really stressful for her and my father in law.