"There's a high chance I could be deported to Portugal and I would be separated from my family," Emma (not her real name) said.
Between July 2022 and June 2023 an average of 1,730 applications a month were found to be invalid, but in August 2023 that figure jumped to 9,470 and in September - the latest month of official data - it rose again, to 13,930.
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