mulder wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:16 pm
Hundreds of thousands are being given second-class pre-settled status, which means they will face a new cliff-edge in five years. That’s another disaster waiting to happen.
In particular, my non-EEA family member and I have been both granted pre-settled status in 2019. If nothing changes in our personal circumstances, could it still happen that my non-EEA family member will be refused settled status in 2024?
If you have been a qualified person since then, and your circumstances stay the same, you could only be refused some functional equivalent of permanent residence if the nominally sovereign power of your place of residence denounced the withdrawal treaty. As far as we can, see the answer to your question is 'No'. Now, if the UK and the EU went to war, I don't know what would happen.
A worrying feature is that it seems to me that you need to apply for settled status before the five years of pre-settled status are complete. For most people, the answer is that they will have completed five years on qualifying routes before the five years of pre-settled status are complete, and can therefore apply before the end of the five years on pre-settled status. Those who forget to apply, or mess up their applications, may have problems.