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By all accounts that doesn't mean your legal to work here or meet the requirement to take advantage of our social care system.

35 year old 2nd gen Caribbean immigrant, worked all his days but has never held a passport, can't prove he's British, so how does he?
I genuinely don't know how I could prove it without my passport!!!
I don’t think it’s a question that they shouldn’t need to formalise their status or indeed that they should have taken some personal responsibility in this matter, it’s the way they have been treated when trying to work through that process.

Anyone who has been in a country for multiple decades, living, working (in some cases for the state for many years) and paying taxes should be treated as if they were a citizen but need assistance in clarifying their status not as an illegal that should be shunted off because their paper work is not in order.

So is it not possible to support the general requirement for people to have to prove their status but condemn the cack handed approach that has been taken on this segment of the population when doing so?