![\"Kathleen](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fef5f5a15b2f79a95cf07e13af74b22f6e0d646b\/0_317_3024_3715\/master\/3024.jpg?width=445&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nKathleen Poole in the dementia care home she has lived in for the past 10 years. Photograph: Angelica Poole<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An application made on her behalf by her family has been rejected because she does not have an up-to-date passport or financial statements to demonstrate her right to be in the country post-Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family told the authorities they did not have an updated passport because their mother is bedridden and does not travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They had hoped politicians would step in to stop the deportation last month after the case received international press attention and after campaigners at British in Europe pointed out that the EU went to great lengths to ensure guarantees for all citizens affected through no fault of their own by the UK\u2019s referendum result, with the then Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, declaring in 2017 that \u201cBrexit should not alter the nature of people\u2019s daily lives\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But on Friday the family were told by the British embassy in Stockholm that the police had been in touch \u201cpressing\u201d it to find a care home in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is impossible to say how long it will take but when we have found a care home willing to receive your mum, the police will give us a travel date and we will have to issue an emergency passport,\u201d an official at the embassy told the Pooles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benn, the former chair of the now defunct Brexit select committee, said: \u201cThis is deeply shocking. What on earth do the Swedish authorities think they are doing? The EU Commission must intervene to stop this from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Angelica and Wayne have previously protested that moving Kathleen would not just be inhumane but physically challenging, as she would need to be hoisted on to the plane and accompanied by nursing staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Angelica said she did not understand why the police were being so \u201charsh\u201d as the family had recently had contact with immigration authorities who were looking for a medical certificate for Kathleen, giving them hope her case would be reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI could not say I am hopeful now because it is the authorities and the police,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A UK Foreign Office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are supporting a British woman and her family in Sweden.\u201d They indicated that the Swedish authorities had said late applications for post-Brexit residency status could be made if there were \u201creasonable grounds\u201d for missing the deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Angelica said her mother-in-law would not be affected mentally by a move to the UK because of the extent of the Alzheimer\u2019s but that it was still inhumane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is the children who are affected. They are not the ones who have to deal with their anxiety and nightmares,\u201d said Angelica, who said her 11-year-old son was worried police were going to show up and take his grandmother away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the withdrawal agreement British citizens living in the EU before Brexit were guaranteed the right to remain but in several countries it involved applications and paperwork to prove historical rights under free movement rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But a spokesperson for the Swedish government has said it was \u201cagainst the law\u201d to comment on any immigration matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David Milstead, a British professor of physics in Sweden who is part of the British in Sweden group, said last month: \u201cThis is a lady who cannot even feed herself. The police are just doing a box-ticking exercise on what she can take with her but nobody is standing up and saying \u2018this is preposterous, this should not be happening\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Swedish police are pressing ahead with plans to deport an elderly British woman with Alzheimer\u2019s who cannot walk or talk, in a Brexit-related case that has been described as \u201cdeeply shocking\u201d by the Labour MP Hilary Benn. Kathleen Poole, a 74-year-old widow, moved to Sweden from Macclesfield 18 years ago to be close to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7405,11611,75,5268,9099,7960,10787,287,11555,6229,2255,9292,6060,159,6621,12310,5455,2264,6094,10954,9796,1828,10342,9795,11662,6831,12287,278,2604,6830,421,11698,10313,7400,1378,9209,6584,12605,3080,6348,3954,659,5273,594],"class_list":["post-30552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-fitness","tag-alzheimer","tag-applications","tag-brexit","tag-british","tag-care-home","tag-case","tag-certificate","tag-children","tag-citizens","tag-dementia","tag-deportation","tag-earth","tag-embassy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-exercise","tag-family","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-international","tag-kathleen-poole","tag-labour","tag-law","tag-macclesfield","tag-michel-barnier","tag-missing","tag-movement","tag-mp","tag-passport","tag-plane","tag-police","tag-politicians","tag-professor","tag-referendum","tag-sweden","tag-swedish","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us","tag-will","tag-withdrawal-agreement","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}