Hi everyone I am urgently trying to figure out if I can use the "Faster Reply" route to rush my application, as my new employer urgently needs me to travel to Germany. Has anybody done this with the EEA (FM) before, and could someone please inform me of the timeline and likelihood of success? Thanks ...

In that case don't change name just for the RC. But a joint bill may be handy. How about council tax. (Not sure if they'll reissue the bill this year though). It may be accepted in blue text (as form is not mandatory) but if you are going to have a few dryruns anyway it may be worth getting black ...

Congratulations. Thank you :) Joint bills in married name I've only been here two weeks, so should I wait until we've received bills with the correct name (Even though I didn't take his surname, I've just changed to being "Mrs" but my name is the same) before I apply for the RC? The form instructs ...

Hi everyone I have recently come [back] to the UK after going back to South Africa and marrying my partner, who is Austrian. I was very quickly granted my EEA Family Permit and was back here within 3 weeks. Now of course comes the fun of applying for the EEA Residence Card. What I wanted to ask is ...

There's no reason for this to be refused as a sham marriage, assuming you have evidence of a subsisting and genuine relationship. The advice seems to be sound. Thanks for clearing that up a bit. I'm just worried we go through all of this and they find a reason to refuse me again. Financially I ...

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Hi everyone So I applied for an EEA Residence Card as an unmarried partner of an Austrian national, and it got refused on the grounds that I don't have enough official documentation to prove that the duration of our relationship exceeds 2 years. I do not blame them for their rejection whatsoever ...

It's not really about being welcome or unwelcome, the HO will be completely dispassionate and indifferent (in an economic sense) on that score. Truthfully I fully respect their decision, and if I was in their position I would probably have done the same thing. I'm just snarky because I'm bitter :P ...

My partner and I have spoken about it before, and in our minds, if we got married now it would be marred with the pressure of this application, which we think would be detrimental to our relationship. I wouldn't want to do that just to be able to stay in this country. Good on you -- I went through ...

So after reading through roughly a million and one forum posts, immigration documents and other documents telling me I'm not welcome here, :P I've decided not to appeal. I have no new evidence to substantiate the claims that the Home Office has a problem with, so in effect I would be running into a ...

I spoke to an immigration advisor earlier who said that we should fly home and get married, and then reapply. He said that it wouldn't possibly be labelled as a marriage of convenience. According to him, if they threatened that, we could say "Well we wanted to apply for the correct visa, but you ...

This is from the IAFT-5 guidance: You must give as much detail as possible and should raise all the grounds of appeal you wish to rely on. The Tribunal is not permitted to consider grounds that you raise which have not been the subject of a decision by the Home Office unless the Home Office agrees ...

If you do decide to get married, whatever you do don't get married by proxy! I still don't understand why people do this, but it seems to be a thing. I've never even heard of that! My partner and I have spoken about it before, and in our minds, if we got married now it would be marred with the ...

I'm still quite tempted to appeal. Maybe I'm being naive. One other thing: In the refusal letter they state the following: "We would expect to see further more compelling evidence such as joint bank statement showing a joint commitment to finances, joint council tax bills, evidence that you have ...

I think what confuses me the most is; why would they allow me to appeal the decision if it was so clear and clean cut for them to make?

Thank you all for your responses. I think that's what I'm struggling with the most at the moment. My knee-jerk reaction is to appeal because I know they're wrong, but I fully understand why they refused it in the first place. Essentially what I'm battling with is: 1) Can I legally appeal if they ...

The wording of the refusal is as follows: "You have not provided sufficient documentation to suggest you are in a durable relationship. You have provided evidence that you reside at the same address as your sponsor this is in the form of a photocopied tenancy agreement dated xx/xx/xxx, you have also ...

It would help if you posted the actual wording of the reasons for the refusal. Please describe the photos you submitted. Were they from the 2 year period of interest and were they date stamped? Please describe the Facebook conversations you submitted. Have you anything at all to show that you lived ...

You may well have been planning to marry anyway. And, as I understand it, its up to HO to prove a m-o-c rather than the other way around. In my judgment, the legal burden lies on the Secretary of State to prove that an otherwise valid marriage is a marriage of convenience so as to justify the ...

The linked doc shows what HO will be looking for. Their rules are derived from stringent UK immigration-related rules as EU law does not go into specifics. So the UK requirement is not strictly compliant with EU law - that may give you some leverage in any appeal, but you still need to prove the ...

Do you mean residence certificate (RC) or family permit (FP) ? 1) Not really. 2) You need substantial evidence of joint venture, future plans, co-habitation helps (but not actually compulsory under EU law), child may help - see page 23+ Thanks so much for your response, noajthan. I appreciate it. I ...

Could you let me know what happened with your case, please? I am in a very similar situation now and have until Wednesday of this week to make a decision

If anybody could respond soon it would truly help me, please.

Hi to everyone, and thank you in advance to anyone who responds to this post. I applied in November 2015 from within the UK for an EEA Family Residence Card to join my Austrian partner here in London. However, this got refused last week, and I have until this Wednesday to decide whether to appeal ...