EEA Permanent residence

My name its Hector. I am writing because I have a question about an application that I would like to make. I am Mexican married to a French national for about 2 years. I already hold the 5 year EEA Family permit. However my wife has lived for 5 years in the UK including the period we have been married and so have and so have I with 3 years of student visas prior to our marriage. Hence we have both now lived in the UK for 5 years but only 2 as a married couple.

My question is wether I as a non-EEA citizen can apply for permanent residence in the Uk or wether I have to wait for reaching 5 years of marriage(which for me would be a total of 8 years in the Uk) to apply??

Thank you for your time

hmmendezhue1 wrote:My name its Hector. I am writing because I have a question about an application that I would like to make. I am Mexican married to a French national for about 2 years. I already hold the 5 year EEA Family permit. However my wife has lived for 5 years in the UK including the period we have been married and so have and so have I with 3 years of student visas prior to our marriage. Hence we have both now lived in the UK for 5 years but only 2 as a married couple.

My question is wether I as a non-EEA citizen can apply for permanent residence in the Uk or wether I have to wait for reaching 5 years of marriage(which for me would be a total of 8 years in the Uk) to apply??

Thank you for your time

You are eligible for permanent residence having resided continuously in the UK with your EEA spouse for 5 years. The time you spent as a student does not count towards your permanent residency under EU Regulations. Therefore you may be eligible for PR in 2011.

I am Mexican married to a French national for about 2 years.

So that means the two of you married in 2006? Can you say what month in 2006 you married? The reason for the question is that the EU regulations changed part-way through 2006.