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1. Will my being in the UK on a student visa, and a work visa, discount me from being eligible for this scheme?
No. She can if she wish but doesn't need to. However, if you make an application for EEA Residence Card, you will need to send her passport/ID card with the application.2. Does my wife need to apply at the same time as me, using the EEA-3 form?
Not a problem with regards to a new EEA application. With regards to ILR, maybe. Better to ask experts in the ILR forum.3. Will my little hiccup with immigration cause any issues?
Are you sure? My understanding is that one cannot switch from EEA to domestic rules, i.e. one cannot enter on EEA FP, get an RC and in, say, three years submit application for an ILR.Jambo wrote:You can't apply for EEA Permanent Residence based on the years under UK immigrations rules. You can switch from UK immigration rules to EEA regulations. However, this will reset the 5 years count for Permanent Residence.
Usually student time does not count towards 5 year period in UK immigration law. However, in your situation, if you have been living with your EEA partner/spouse for 5 yrs and could prove that you have been in relationship with your EEA partner during your student visa/Tier 1 status (including before marriage at least 2 years and after marriage period) and it covers 5 years, then i think you should be eligible for PR.I have been told by some that student time does not count toward this 5 year number (?). I have alternatively heard that student time would count, but that overstaying my student would count as a break in the 5 year period (?).
This brings up another wrinkle. The wedding we went to in 2007 was not our own - but her brother's (I apologize if my post was misleading). My wife and I were not married until 2008. However, I was hoping that for the 3 years in the UK prior to this I would be considered an 'unmarried parther' of an EEA national. We have no certificate of civil partnership but I should be able to document that we were in fact living together.Nimitta wrote: The timeline is the US citizen entered the UK in 2007 being married to a German citizen.
http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=74703Obezag wrote:However, I was hoping that for the 3 years in the UK prior to this I would be considered an 'unmarried parther' of an EEA national.
As per my understanding OP is eligible for PR right now. Please see below link for info.Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject:
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If you are the unmarried partner of an EEA national, then you do not become eligible to be treated as a "family member" (with associated rights of residence" until you have applied for a residence document.
Once you are married, however, your rights are automatic.
I would say that Nimitta is right that you can count any eligible time int he UK towards Permanent Residence under EEA rules, regardless of whether you had entry clearance or leave to remain under the Immigration Rules.
However, you can only count from the date of your wedding, because before that you did not have "family member" status.
So you become eligible for ILR next year, or for PR in 2013.
If for any reason your ILR is refused, then you could always apply for a Residence Card at that point and rely on your family-member status for PR at a later date.
This link does not say that (and should be updated regarding A8 nationals).pinkpanter wrote:As per my understanding OP is eligible for PR right now. Please see below link for info.
http://www.lawfirmuk.net/unmarriedpartner_e.html
My understanding from the link (not saying in the link). I quoted below:pinkpanter wrote:
As per my understanding OP is eligible for PR right now. Please see below link for info.
http://www.lawfirmuk.net/unmarriedpartner_e.html
This link does not say that (and should be updated regarding A8 nationals).
Yes, it is becausepinkpanter wrote:However, OP does not have RC on the basis of unmarried partner. That might be a problem...
And now guess what the EEA regulations say about unmarried partners...Unmarried partners can make an application for permanent residence on successfully completing 5 years residence under the 2006 EEA regulations.
EEA regulations says:pinkpanter wrote:
However, OP does not have RC on the basis of unmarried partner. That might be a problem...
Yes, it is because
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Unmarried partners can make an application for permanent residence on successfully completing 5 years residence under the 2006 EEA regulations.
And now guess what the EEA regulations say about unmarried partners...
This thread has two stories that are similar to mine, but they are not identical. In the first (rastica), the application is an unmarried partner of an EEA national, whereas I am a spouse, and therefore a direct family member. In the second (weareawesome) the application was rejected because the applicant was in the UK illegally for 2 years.