well, it seems they made a mistake if you only got married to an EU national in 2007 and never applied (presumably) for an EEA residence card prior to that on the basis of being an extended family member.
My personal advice is to apply a year after the PR issue date (April 2012) as otherwise your 5 years would have been August 2012! Others may disagree here, but you only have 6 months of waiting left and you won't need any other documents but your PR card, passport, life in the UK test. Whereas if you wanted to apply on the basis of your marriage and so on, you would need to submit the same documents as you submitted when applying to retain the right to reside to prove that you acquired PR before the issue date of the PR.
But as I said above, since it seems they made a mistake by issuing you with the PR in April 2011, instead of August 2012 (when you were really entitled to it) I would just wait until April! They should not have counted your time as a student in the UK towards the 5 years' residence, as that student visa was issued under the national law.
omithebos wrote:Thanks for your reply, i know it is very shocking and wierd, as i applied with EEA2 for retention of rights, no more documents were requested, but i actually submitted everything they could have asked for already,i was in good terms with my xwife so all the p60s, proof of address were there for both of us. But getting a PR within 2 months of applying looks like a miracle to me as from what i am reading on this forum, i actually followed the same process as everyone else did on this forum after reading from here as well.
But now the confusing bit is when to apply for citizenship and also wanted to know if anyone else on this forum has gone through a similar situation as mine?
