EU Citizens Win The Right Of Access Home Office Data Held Against Them

EU citizens are now able to gain maximum access to all the records held against their names by the Home Office or any other body following the court of appeal's decision that the Data Protection Act 2018  argument put up by the Home Office to prevent such access had no merit and EU citizens attempting to gain access to their own records had been unlawfully denied that right, ruling that exemption. Paragraph 4, Schedule 2 of the Data Protection Act 2018 that says that "the right of access to a person's data (among others) does not apply in the context of "immigration control"", part of the EU retained law, does not apply.

The long three-year legal battle waged against the Home Office by campaigners from the charities 3million   and Open Rights Group /  resulting in the highly significant ruling, means that any EU citizen who is denied settled status or any other immigration visa in the future will be able to obtain full access to the Home Office databases and be