From EEA Visa to Permanent Residency

I understand that in order to apply for a passport EU citizens must first have a PR card and then they have to wait for a year before being able to apply. But if the data sent to request the PR card covers up to current date then the requirement to wait for a year drops.

I anyway now have sent everything using a period in the past.

Many thanks again

And sorry you stated that in one of your previous posts.

If you have ambitions of British citizenship in the near future, try to use a period which ends at least one year before the current date (so for example February 2009 to February 2015). Then you won't have to wait another year before applying for citizenship.

Bamboccio wrote:And sorry you stated that in one of your previous posts.

If you have ambitions of British citizenship in the near future, try to use a period which ends at least one year before the current date (so for example February 2009 to February 2015). Then you won't have to wait another year before applying for citizenship.

Indeed. Better safe than sorry when £1000+ at stake.

The devil is in the detail.
Very surprising how the simplest details catch some people out.

Bamboccio wrote:I understand that in order to apply for a passport EU citizens must first have a PR card and then they have to wait for a year before being able to apply. But if the data sent to request the PR card covers up to current date then the requirement to wait for a year drops.

I anyway now have sent everything using a period in the past.

Many thanks again

You can't apply for a British passport before you've been granted British citizenship. They are massively different things

The picking and choosing of a qualifying period for PR seems pointless anyway, as HO will always try to determine the earliest you actually acquired it. I sent evidence for the period 2009-2014 but my PR date was recorded as a date in June 2012 (5 years after I started working).

Thanks O'Hara.
What is the difference? I understand that first you get the citizenship and then the passport.
If so when can I apply?

thanks!

Bamboccio wrote:Thanks O'Hara.
What is the difference? I understand that first you get the citizenship and then the passport.
If so when can I apply?

thanks!

You've really got to do some of the heavy lifting yourself.

Start here to get up to speed:
http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 95747.html

Many thanks, understood.

If anyone is interested the home office has taken the money out of my card today. So it looks like that the old EAA3 form has been accepted. I will keep posting updates.

That's good to hear. Please let us know when you receive your PR card

In the mean time, start having a look at Form AN and its guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... en-form-an

I have received the card today so that form worked.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Bamboccio wrote:I have received the card today so that form worked.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Congratulations.
(And yes, the latest form is not compulsory - we don't just make this stuff up ).

Bamboccio wrote:I have received the card today so that form worked.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Excellent news. Citizenship next?

Yes - I wonder if I have to wait one year or not - in my application for PR I have used the period 2008 --> 2013.


many thanks!

If they have recorded your date of PR as you think it should be in 2013, then you don't need to wait a year.

Unfortunately the only ways to find out what date they have are to either submit a subject access request (SAR) to UKVI (£10 and probably a 2 month wait) or book an NCS appointment to submit your citizenship application and they can find out while you are there (but you risk losing the NCS fee if UKVI have cocked it up).

Thank you. I can take the risk of loosing the NCS fee. So to confirm I can use any location for the NCS service (e.g. my local council) and I would know if I can submit or I have to wait for a year?

I would now anyway need to get study / pass the life in UK test...

Many thanks!

ohara wrote:In that case, use this one: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/128 ... ple_v2.pdf

It's not mandatory to use the EEA(PR) form (or any form in fact), and the above linked EEA3 form is much simpler and shorter.

And:

noajthan wrote:

Bamboccio wrote:I have received the card today so that form worked.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Congratulations.
(And yes, the latest form is not compulsory - we don't just make this stuff up ).

Sorry for being a pain, but do we have evidence that applications have been accepted using the old form? Because in that case I should fulfill my requirements, see my previous post http://www.immigrationboards.com/eea-ro ... l#p1380874.

rooibos wrote:

ohara wrote:In that case, use this one: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/128 ... ple_v2.pdf

It's not mandatory to use the EEA(PR) form (or any form in fact), and the above linked EEA3 form is much simpler and shorter.

And:

noajthan wrote:

Bamboccio wrote:I have received the card today so that form worked.

Many thanks for your help!!!

Congratulations.
(And yes, the latest form is not compulsory - we don't just make this stuff up ).

Sorry for being a pain, but do we have evidence that applications have been accepted using the old form? Because in that case I should fulfill my requirements, see my previous post http://www.immigrationboards.com/eea-ro ... l#p1380874.

Yes, you just answered your own question.

However you still need rock-solid supporting evidence even if 'going commando' with earlier form.
Or by being hardcore and applying by letter.

HO is bipolar and plays hardball;
fulfill requirements and get confirmed.
To be found wanting is to be refused.

noajthan wrote:
Yes, you just answered your own question.
.

Er... How?

I was asking if we know for sure that applications using the old form have been accepted.

rooibos wrote:

noajthan wrote:
Yes, you just answered your own question.
.

Er... How?

I was asking if we know for sure that applications using the old form have been accepted.

Read again what you quoted from member Bamboccio.

Other success stories are buried in the PR 'timeline' thread.
I leave searching those as an exercise for the interested reader.

noajthan wrote:

rooibos wrote:

noajthan wrote:
Yes, you just answered your own question.
.

Er... How?

I was asking if we know for sure that applications using the old form have been accepted.

Read again what you quoted from member Bamboccio.

Other success stories are buried in the PR 'timeline' thread.
I leave searching those as an exercise for the interested reader.

Thanks.