Application for PR or PR card: form EEA (PR) - UpToDate

[Cayetano]

Hi,

We can believe, today have arrived everything and we are just waiting for the permanent residence card(it will arrive in the next 10 days)
I applied as a Spanish nationality for a residence card certificate and I included to my wife, Colombian nationality for a permanent residence card.
We are married for 8 years, living in UK about 6 with the same address and both working.
Here is our timeline:
18/11/2015 (special delivery on 19/11) Application sent.
04/12/2015 Biometrics received.
07/12/2015 Biometrics enrolled.
No COA received.
18/02/2016 Email to nweurocoarequest@homeoffice.gsi.gov.UK
26/02/2016 COA received (dated 24/02)
21/05/2016 Documents received, permanent residence card certificate, and letter of approval permanent residence card dated on 18 of May(my special delivery next day, they sent yesterday)
PR card. Before 31/05/2016.

Good luck to everyone and do not lose your faith and hope everything will be fine!!!

[kris12]

Hi All,

here's an update of my Timeline:

EEA National
*resident since August 2010
*many employments
*gaps in employment (due to studies etc)
*working with no WRS permit for 4 months; Dec 2010 - April 2011

Application sent: 25.04.2016
Application received: 27.04.2016
Payment taken: 29.04.2016
Passport Requested Back: 09.05.2016
Confirmation email received: 16.05.2016
Passport Returned: ?
Documents Returned: ?
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: ?
DCPR received: ?

Hello kriss I request my passport to be returned on the same day you requested your passport . I still waiting , I hope arrives next week, because I have to travel in June.

Hi Tony. I just received mine today (in one of the two SD envelopes i enclosed with the application). How about yours? Have you got it back yet?

So my updated Timeline:

Application sent: 25.04.2016
Application received: 27.04.2016
Payment taken: 29.04.2016
Passport Requested Back: 09.05.2016
Confirmation email received: 16.05.2016
Passport Returned: 21.05.2016
Documents Returned: ?
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: ?
DCPR received: ?

[salmintin]

Just an update on my timeline,

Documents sent: 23.01.2016
Documents received: 25.01.2016
Payment taken: 27.01.2016
DCPR received: 21.05.2016 (originally sent on the 5.3.2016 but to a wrong address, caseworker sent it to my previous address from 4.5 years ago)

I have speculated previously that requesting my passport might have delayed the process which is not the case, since if they have sent the DCPR to the correct address the first time I would have received it in 6 weeks time.

Good luck to all, and thank you for sharing your timelines and knowledge.

Thanks!

How did you realise your documents were sent to your old address?

[Tony2015]

My update

[Tony2015]

Hi All,

here's an update of my Timeline:

EEA National
*resident since August 2010
*many employments
*gaps in employment (due to studies etc)
*working with no WRS permit for 4 months; Dec 2010 - April 2011

Application sent: 25.04.2016
Application received: 27.04.2016
Payment taken: 29.04.2016
Passport Requested Back: 09.05.2016
Confirmation email received: 16.05.2016
Passport Returned: ?
Documents Returned: ?
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: ?
DCPR received: ?

Hello kriss I request my passport to be returned on the same day you requested your passport . I still waiting , I hope arrives next week, because I have to travel in June.

Hi Tony. I just received mine today (in one of the two SD envelopes i enclosed with the application). How about yours? Have you got it back yet?

So my updated Timeline:

Application sent: 25.04.2016
Application received: 27.04.2016
Payment taken: 29.04.2016
Passport Requested Back: 09.05.2016
Confirmation email received: 16.05.2016
Passport Returned: 21.05.2016
Documents Returned: ?
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: ?
DCPR received: ?

Good news kris12. I hope mine arrived today as well . I will call my lawyer on Monday morning to check if mine arrives . I will keep posted . Enjoy your weekend .

[medlence]

Just an update on my timeline,

Documents sent: 23.01.2016
Documents received: 25.01.2016
Payment taken: 27.01.2016
DCPR received: 21.05.2016 (originally sent on the 5.3.2016 but to a wrong address, caseworker sent it to my previous address from 4.5 years ago)

I have speculated previously that requesting my passport might have delayed the process which is not the case, since if they have sent the DCPR to the correct address the first time I would have received it in 6 weeks time.

Good luck to all, and thank you for sharing your timelines and knowledge.

Thanks!

How did you realise your documents were sent to your old address?

They have used a new envelope but have put the old envelope as it was returned to them without opening, so there was a sticker from Royal Mail from 21st of March saying 18 days have passed and they will return to sender. Also the letter inside was addressed to my old address and dated 29 of February

[cryptozoologist]

Hi all,

here's my timeline:

Application sent: 04.03.2016
Application received: 05.03.2016
Payment taken: 09.03.2016
Confirmation email received: 23.03.2016
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: ?
DCPR received: ?

EEA, 8 years in UK but in varying circumstances (study,, work and some weeks unpaid in between). Luckily I still had my european health insurance card covering the entire study period - I hope that will count.

I had not planned to request my passport back since I had my national ID card that I can use for travel in the EU; however recently I managed to lose my wallet and everything in it. Based on the timelines on this site I assumed that the application might be close to completion and decided to wait, but now I'm getting antsy...

[Stefan7]

Hello

So far nothing from the HO. Any advice what to do? The worrying thing is that I never recieved a confirmation email with case number. Is there any possibility that they lost my documents? This is my timeline today:

Documents sent: 22/2/16
Documents received: 24/2/16
Payment taken: 1/03/16
Confirmation email received: NA
Documents requested back: 7/03/16
Documents received: 19/03/16
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: NA
DCPR received: NA

EEA8.

[salmintin]

Hello

So far nothing from the HO. Any advice what to do? The worrying thing is that I never recieved a confirmation email with case number. Is there any possibility that they lost my documents? This is my timeline today:

Documents sent: 22/2/16
Documents received: 24/2/16
Payment taken: 1/03/16
Confirmation email received: NA
Documents requested back: 7/03/16
Documents received: 19/03/16
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: NA
DCPR received: NA

EEA8.

Did you try to ring them? Maybe they won't be too useful but it's better than nothing.

Anyway it doesn't look like they lost your documents since you were able to request and receive your ID / passport / whatever.

Based on the timelines on this site I assumed that the application might be close to completion and decided to wait, but now I'm getting antsy...

There are 3 people here who applied around the same time you and I applied and they received their answers two weeks ago. So I think they are definitely working on our cases. I guess all we can do now is be patient and wait.

[Stefan7]

Hello

So far nothing from the HO. Any advice what to do? The worrying thing is that I never recieved a confirmation email with case number. Is there any possibility that they lost my documents? This is my timeline today:

Documents sent: 22/2/16
Documents received: 24/2/16
Payment taken: 1/03/16
Confirmation email received: NA
Documents requested back: 7/03/16
Documents received: 19/03/16
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated: NA
DCPR received: NA

EEA8.

Did you try to ring them? Maybe they won't be too useful but it's better than nothing.

Anyway it doesn't look like they lost your documents since you were able to request and receive your ID / passport / whatever.

Based on the timelines on this site I assumed that the application might be close to completion and decided to wait, but now I'm getting antsy...

There are 3 people here who applied around the same time you and I applied and they received their answers two weeks ago. So I think they are definitely working on our cases. I guess all we can do now is be patient and wait.

Thank you for your reply salmintin. No I never tried to call them, I don't even know what number to call but I think at some point I will need to. I follow other people's cases here and as I see everybody received at least an email with case number and I never did. That's why I am not sure if they deal with it or my documents are not complete anymore as it's been opened already and some of them are missing. I don't know. Or another option could be, the HO sent the documents but I never recived them from some reason what I will never know. I know these are just speculations but I really don't know what else could be the problem.

[Tony2015]

My updated timeline.

-Application sent: 01/04/2016
-Received by HO: 04/04/2016
-Application fee (credit card): 12/04/2016
-Confirmation email: Still Waiting (4 weeks waiting after payment) Not Received.
-Requested passport back : 09/05/16
-Passport Received: 23/05/16


Hello kris12 I received my passport back today . As soon I receive my PR I will update.

[mr twelvetrees]

Thank you for your reply salmintin. No I never tried to call them, I don't even know what number to call but I think at some point I will need to. I follow other people's cases here and as I see everybody received at least an email with case number and I never did. That's why I am not sure if they deal with it or my documents are not complete anymore as it's been opened already and some of them are missing. I don't know. Or another option could be, the HO sent the documents but I never recived them from some reason what I will never know. I know these are just speculations but I really don't know what else could be the problem.

I've seen a few completed timelines where confirmation email never turned up, after all it's easy to misspell an email address not to mention technological reasons why email delivery can't be 100% guaranteed.

You can try to call them, as far as I know this is the official contact for EU route applications:
https://www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi/european-nationals

but for my case I was told that there is not much they can do, it's just a generic helpline and they allegedly have no connection to the case workers nor the database - unless the application went beyond 6 months. As salmintin said, there is a good chance that there is no problem and yours is in the queue just like ours.

[london79]

HI EVERY ONE
MY TIME IS
APPLY 17/11/15
PAYMENT TAKEN 22/11/15
BOIC SEND 8/12/15
COA REC 22/1/16
REFUSEL REC 23/05/16
I GOT SAME STORY LIKE MR...NOTJUSTOK TELLING HIS STORY I SEND EVERY THING
AND HOME OFFCE SAY I DID NOT SEND MY ORINGINAL DECREE ABSOLUTE .
AND MY PAY SLIP WHICH I SNED PRINT OUT E PAY SLIP NOW DAYS EVERY ONE GET E/PAY SLIP
BUT HOME OFFICE DONT KNOW ABOUT .
PLEASE ADVICE ME CAN I SEND RECONSDRATIO LATER TO CASE WORKER LIKE ,,, MR NOTJUSTOK SEND
OR I NEED GO FOR APPLIE
PLEASE NOTJUSTOK IF YOU POST ME HOW YOU DID IT
THANKS EVERY ONE

[london79]

EEA (PR) as Non- EEA Family Member (Retaining Right)

Here is my timeline.
Send application on : 04/11/15
Ho received on : 05/11/15
Payment taken on 10/11/15
Biometric letter dated on 13/11/15
Received on 19/11/15
Biometric done 24/11/2015
COA dated : 02/12/2015
PR Card : Still waiting

I just track my enclosed return special delivery envelop and it says It's on its way..... Fingers crossed as am
a bit nervous.



Update: My PR is refused.

Reason for refusal: Even though you meet all other residence requirements, you have failed to provide evidence that since your divorce on 14 October 2015 till the 4 November 2015 that your application was received by UK visa & immigration, you have been a worker, self employed person or a self sufficient person, how ever u have failed to provide evidence that you meet requirement of regulation 10(6) and you have therefore not retained a right of residence following divorce .


Documents sent

My Ex Wife EEA National ID
EEA National DCPR
6 year SA Statements
6 years EEA national Bank statements
6 years utility bills joint
6 years Payslip (my Self) including period claimed in refusal
Family photos
6 years bank statements
6 years joint whole lots of documents
Decree Absolute

I guess the case worker just want me to suffer. because i sent my payslips and self employment proof for the 3 weeks claimed in the refusal. i dont know how come he said i didnt provide it.

Pls advise what should i do

Thanks


Update.....

Am glad to notify you that my application has been approved. after sending a reconsideration letter to the case worker. i receive a letter from the case worker this morning that my application has been approved and he also agree to have made an error in my previous refusal. see time line below.....

EEA (PR) as Non- EEA Family Member (Retaining Right)

Here is my timeline.
Send application on : 04/11/15
Ho received on : 05/11/15
Payment taken on 10/11/15
Biometric letter dated on 13/11/15
Received on 19/11/15
Biometric done 24/11/2015
COA dated : 02/12/2015
Refusal letter: 28/04/2016
Reconsideration letter sent on: 04/05/2016
Approval letter received: 20/05/2016
PR Card : received together with approval

I wish all of you good luck....

All the Best!

[Eagle00]

Hello All, here is my application timeline for EU (PR) application - EEA national living in the UK for >10 years exercising treaty rights, with non-EEA spouse both applied using one form:

16 Jan 2016 - application posted, special delivery
2 Feb 2016 - email from UKVI confirming receipt of application
4 Feb 2016 - biometric invitation letter for non EEA spouse
6 Feb - biometric data provided at local post office
12 Feb - CoA for non-EEA spouse received in the post
still waiting as of 23 May 2016

Are other applicants experiencing similarly long waiting times? Does the fact fact that the application is for two people (incl. non-EEA spouse) result in longer than usual waiting times (current average is about 100 days from what I gather).

Many thanks

[ivetalopes]

Wow I have read all posts here on timeline and I must say I thought it would be much quicker than that.

I know they say it can take up to 6 months and they really do take their time. I can see most of you really waited 6 months!!!

Well I only just sent mine (I'm the sponsor by the way, my husband is the applicant)

But so far:

Application sent 12th May 2016
Received 13Th May
Payment taken 16Th May

[jotoia]

Hi all
Any phone no to enqure about pasport return please?
Thank you all

[butt37]

hi everyone
timeline for my aunt(Non-EEA)
Application sent 23/11/2015
payment taken 27/11/2015
Biometric 11/01/2016
PR card received 25/05/2016
that is after 6 months and 2 days in total.

Good luck to everyone

[dandodex]

Slight update...

Spanish EEA national

Documents sent Special Delivery: 11/05/2016
Documents received at Durham: 12/05/2016
Payment taken: 13/05/2016
Request for passport return sent: 19/05/2016
Confirmation email received: 26/05/2016
Passport received:
Document Certifying Permanent Residence dated:
Document Certifying Permanent Residence received:
(or refusal of course!)

[Arshsam]

hi everyone
timeline for my aunt(Non-EEA)
Application sent 23/11/2015
payment taken 27/11/2015
Biometric 11/01/2016
PR card received 25/05/2016
that is after 6 months and 2 days in total.

Good luck to everyone

Congratulations Butt

Thanks for sharing your timeline...

[Stefan7]

Thank you for your reply salmintin. No I never tried to call them, I don't even know what number to call but I think at some point I will need to. I follow other people's cases here and as I see everybody received at least an email with case number and I never did. That's why I am not sure if they deal with it or my documents are not complete anymore as it's been opened already and some of them are missing. I don't know. Or another option could be, the HO sent the documents but I never recived them from some reason what I will never know. I know these are just speculations but I really don't know what else could be the problem.

I've seen a few completed timelines where confirmation email never turned up, after all it's easy to misspell an email address not to mention technological reasons why email delivery can't be 100% guaranteed.

You can try to call them, as far as I know this is the official contact for EU route applications:
https://www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi/european-nationals

but for my case I was told that there is not much they can do, it's just a generic helpline and they allegedly have no connection to the case workers nor the database - unless the application went beyond 6 months. As salmintin said, there is a good chance that there is no problem and yours is in the queue just like ours.

I contacted the HO today and not very useful as you said.The answer was if once they take the money they deal with it and it's takes 6 months these days regardless from EEA or non EEA. Also no email notification sent to anyone. I see the opposite on this forum but never mind.

[dandodex]

It would appear the contact centre is populated by people without the right training as from this forum we can see people are getting their emails and EEA applicants tend to get their PR certificates within 8 to 10 weeks.

I just got the email today, two weeks exactly on the day they received my application by Special Delivery. I see most people get the email after 4 weeks so no idea what is going on.

[ivetalopes]

Hi guys

I spoke with their call centre before I even came on this forum and I must say they are completely useless. They gave me completely the wrong advice and like you said they are not trained at all.

Thank god i found this forum so I can get some valuable information.

I'm just confused by one thing....does the timeline for dealing with application depends on whether you are a EU national or non EU national. My husband is Brazilian so does that mean his application will take longer than say someone from EU?

[dandodex]

Correct, it seems EEA takes a couple of months, family takes a few months.

[ivetalopes]

sorry what do you mean family takes a few months?