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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/25/singer-sweden-british-husband-refused-leave-to-remain-brexit
I may be sounding unsympathetic here, but I live in the EU and although I have an EU passport as well as a UK one, I know lots of British migrants who had to "normalise" their status. Not a single one that I know "forgot" to fill in papers or was "unaware" that they had no right to remain by default (even though it was a formality if you filled in the papers). People I know even had time to learn the language and get citizenship when the hard Brexit was becoming inevitable.
Perhaps where I live is different as the country is MUCH smaller, but I'm getting the shits with people who go to the newspapers explaining how it's not their fault. My assumption is that as a guest in a foreign country, the onus is on you to make sure you understand how you're able to remain where you live. Particularly given how the UK treated people from the EU and continues to do so...
There are some cases, like the lady with dementia who was in the papers that I absolutely sympathise with and can understand, but the entitled, head in the sand, unaware, "it doesn't mean me" people can get back in the sea.