A community group has welcomed funding to help EU citizens apply for settled status but says Brexit could bring a lot of “uncertainty” into people’s lives.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is giving six community groups in the capital £5,000 each to support EU citizens applying for settled status so they can remain in the UK after Brexit.

The money is aimed at helping “vulnerable” EU citizens such as disabled, elderly or homeless people.

Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), which is based in Islington and has outreach centres across the capital, including in Haringey, is one of the groups that received funding and helps Latin-American EU nationals.

The director of the community group, Lucila Granada, said: “There are very few funding options for groups like us.

“We are worried the vulnerable people such as elderly people and sufferers of domestic violence might struggle to apply to get settled status, so we are happy to have got some money to help reach out to them.

“One of our big worries was that people might not be able to find out how to apply for settled status and then be left undocumented.”

Ms Granada says one of the main problems faced by EU nationals when trying to apply for settled status is that a lot of the migrants she works with will not necessarily have the correct documents.

She said: “A lot of people live in poor housing conditions and many of them won’t have tenancy agreements.

“We really need to be looking at disadvantaged groups with those specific problems. People might not have information about the alternative evidence they need to provide to be granted settled status.”

Speaking about people the community group works with – around 5,000 women a year – she said: “There is a lot of anxiety around Brexit and what might happen to people.

“Migrants who have already had bad experiences and faced financial difficulties are worried about how Brexit could bring uncertainty into their lives again.

“These people have families and they are worried so it’s really tough to think about what might happen to them if they have to start again.

“This is a massive process that could cause a lot of problems and a lot of people trying to apply for settled status could be left behind.”