Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition All UK citizens living in the EU can vote on the UK's membership of the EU.

I am a British citizen who left the UK in 1999 to work in Australia. I returned to Europe in 2011 to live and work in Germany. It is unfair that people like me were denied a vote in the referendum.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The Government has said that it does have plans to change this rule. It's therefore not clear what action you would like the Government to take that is different from what it is already doing.

You can find more information in the Government's response to this petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112142

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.