Several individuals affected by the oversight posted screengrabs on social media.
The UK Home Office has apologised to 240 EU citizens who applied for settled status in the UK after it accidentally shared their personal details via email — the blunder, which was apparently a mundane administrative error, could constitute a breach of the Data Protection Act.
Over 400,000 European nationals have to date applied to secure their stay in the UK after Brexit since June 2016, with an additional 200,000 signing up under the EU settlement scheme — an initiative some have slammed as slow and bureaucratic.
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