Footprints of all investigated fields. Upper panel: we show the distribution of the intervening galaxies for the COSMOS field from the spectroscopic catalog by Sinigaglia et al. (2022) in blue and the distribution of the corresponding COSMOS MIGHTEE host galaxies in black. The intervening galaxies from the photometric (Hatfield et al. 2022) sample are shown in red. Lower panel: we show the distribution of the intervening galaxies for the XMM-LSS field from the spectroscopic catalog by Basu et al. (2015) in blue and the distribution of the corresponding XMM-LSS MIGHTEE host galaxies in black. The patchy distribution results from the pointings of the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera of the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. The intervening galaxies from the photometric (Hatfield et al. 2022) sample are shown in red.