The publications of In Limbo and In Limbo Too were not the end of story – and triggered a number of new and also updated testimonies.
Here you will find a small selection which we will rotate regularly.
Check this page from time to time to see new testimonies.
Testimonies
Testimonies
The Other…
Today I'm travelling to Liverpool. In September 1976, I travelled by train to Liverpool for the first time to start...
Trying to get home
Our home is Europe. I am French, my partner is British, but first we are Europeans. We each have our...
REFLECTIONS
These are some of my thoughts on the UK leaving the EU. I live in the Netherlands and have done...
CHANGE
"The only thing that can redeem humanity is cooperation.” (Bertrand Russell) Change is the only constant, and we’ve all been...
THE BUCKET LIST
Young Matt: “I get so angry sometimes. People are so unthinking. They say ’We just don’t want any more newcomers,...
Like a Poppy in the Storm
When I first moved to the UK I was apprehensive, because of my country's history, how would people see me?...
Feeling Whole Again…
I was born a Czech, of two Czech parents, in 1948 in Prague. My father was a Czech refugee in...
HOPING AGAINST HOPE
I have lived in France for four years, I moved here with my husband from the UK a matter of...
Land of the lonely trees…
That is how I called it, the land that I fell in love with when I was 16 years old....
One more broken marriage
I have lived in the UK since I was 19 years old. I studied, got a job, got married, had...
Moving back. It is not so easy anymore.
We departed London in February 2009 for an adventure, living and working in Switzerland and subsequently in The Netherlands where...
Like a Divorce…
France was my home for seventeen years, then a second home for ten. I moved there, having dreamed of doing...
Drowning in bureaucracy
I am a British Citizen living and working in Spain since 2016. My husband is a Spanish resident with Moroccan...
Stranded
My name is Richard Wallace, a British Citizen, and I’ve been happily married to Riekje (official name: Hendrika van de...
For the love of Karol…
I used to be happy in Poland. Married with 3 children our apartment was not big, but with the little...
Finding our worth in post Brexit England
Never have I ever thought that France could eventually become a better prospect than the UK for me. I speak...
Suddenly so very far away…
I‘m writing with a heavy heart about fears I hoped I would never have to deal with. I am Austrian,...
Freedom Confined
I am a British Citizen in Austria. My partner is Austrian and we were both quite happy in the UK...
Living the European dream
Almost 34 years ago my parents arrived in France - in a Europe whose borders were still closed, free movement...
Longing to belong…
I'm one of those that they all really hate. I'm one of those that they talk about a lot. But...
A stateless state of mind
It has been four years since my initial testimony that back then started as a rather random collection of anxious...
Invisible
I arrived in Scotland from Belgium in September 2013 following my Scottish boyfriend -now husband- after finishing university with a...
Broken Bridges to Nowhere…
In October 2018 we travelled to the UK from our home in Valpolicella, Italy, to await the arrival of our...
Still in EUSS Application Limbo
My status in the UK is of crucial importance to me but of greater importance at this very moment in...
HOME IS WHERE I AM WANTED…
I feel a “foreigner” in my own country. When Freedom of Movement happened in Humberside, the whole region bloomed. Hundreds...
Exposing their motives…
I moved to Estonia back in 2010 out of a love for Europe and the drying up of opportunities in...
No longer my country…
I came to the UK 25 years ago, recruited by the government for my language skills, on a very low...
Do not clip their wings…
In early 1996 one late evening the telephone rang. I was in bed but I clearly remember my son, a...
Middle-of-the-night musings
It’s the middle of the night and sleep has eluded me. I’ve been awake for hours and earlier I felt...
#InLimboVoices
…are Mini-Testimonies we share almost daily on Twitter and Facebook. We have asked thousands of EU citizens in the UK...
In Limbo: Brexit testimonies from EU citizens in the UK
Watch the book trailer for the moving and powerful collection of testimonies collected by Elena Remigi and Véronique Martin, edited...
Freedom of Movement is beautiful – #FoMisBeautiful
Freedom of movement is a wonderful achievement and an asset – we value and cherish it and don’t want to...