Re: What a horrible waste of time and money
We can only hope.
IF (caps) deportation comes to pass then we are in the roundup buses and leaving everything we worked for and built here.
Currently, we are seen by Theresa May as no more than a "negotiating point" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-immigration-eu-citizens-theresa-may-uk-a7116971.html
Colour me not reassured. No-one tilting at the Tory leadership is saying up front and clear "you can stay". Hollande isn't exactly taking the line of someone prepared to defend the position of families like us, especially when Le Pen is finding such support amongst both young and old.
Don't forget. The default fallback position, if all 27 remaining states fail to accept the settlement terms after 2 years negotiation (unless extended), is for all treaties to cease effect. That means no right of residence for any EU families in the UK, and no right of residence for any UK family in the EU.
That's an appealing outcome for the far right in Austria and the Netherlands.
And that means buses.
Very much IF and very much "hope not", but very much not 100% "not going to happen".
Bit of a rant on my part there, but we're the ones currently in the bait box, if not yet wriggling on the hook.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
