Yet another Dutch national is at the centre of an immigration row in Britain after worried Europeans began applying for permanent residency to beat Brexit.

In the latest case, reported in the Guardian, a Dutch and Spanish couple who have lived in Britain all their adult lives were told their children did not qualify for permanent residency.

Officials told Jan-Dinant Schreuder, who moved to the UK from the Netherlands when he was three, and his Spanish wife Monica Obiols, they needed to provide more evidence their children, aged 12 and 15, lived with their parents.

‘What evidence are they supposed to have? They don’t have council tax bills or proof of where they live. They are children,’ Obiols told the paper. ‘They have gone to school here all their lives, English is their mother tongue. I was just so shocked when we got the refusal letters.’

The couple are now reapplying for permanent residency for their children with additional evidence, the paper said.

Earlier the Guardian reported on the case of a Dutch woman who had lived in Britain for 30 years and was she may not qualify for permanent residency without private health insurance.

The paper has also raised the case of Dutch woman Monique Hawkins who was told she should make arrangements to leave the country after she applied for citizenship after the EU referendum.

Earlier this week, Britain’s minister for Brexit David Jones told DutchNews.nl that sorting out the residency rights for EU nationals in Britain was a top priority in the forthcoming negotiations on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.