Applying for settled status is a fraught and humiliating process

EU citizens demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London. ‘Perhaps, as a foreigner, I don’t understand the meaning of the word “straightforward”,’ writes Jacqueline Gilbert. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAHome Office minister Brandon Lewis (Letters, 10 September) writes: “EU citizens are our friends … and the EU settlement scheme has been designed to make it straightforward for them to get the immigration status they need.”Really? I am a