This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Make treating UK citizens less favourably than EU citizens a criminal offence.
Currently under EU legislation it is illegal for EU citizens to be discriminated by their country of origin in other parts of the EU. However, using loopholes citizens of the U.K. Are treated less favourably thank EU members in their own country.
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Examples of this include seeking to allow a partner to reside as a European citizen, university tuition fees in Scotland and many more.
Sign this petition if you believe part of the European reforms, if we do stay in, should be that it is enshrined in law that UK citizens get the same benefits as other European citizens in that we are not discriminate against due to our country of origin.
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