Anyone waiting on EEA4 more than me?

savas1234 · Post by **savas1234** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:59 am

hi Breaker29 thanks for the comment, well the job opportunity was in a company called pret amanger its french caffe, anyway to be honest i am trying every trick available to me in order to keep my self away from thinking about this mater, otherwise it seems like i am loosing it LOL

take care and good luck to you mate.

savas1234 · Post by **savas1234** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:48 am

Hey Hey , very happy , just to let you know all i have just received my Permenant recidence i still cant believe it , although it is with limit 10 years but it doesn't matter as long as it entitles me to apply for the nationality,
thanks for reading and wish you all the same luck.

Breaker29 · Post by **Breaker29** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:57 pm

@ savas . Congratulations for PR,

I hope that your waiting, or maybe the joye,just wipe out the bad memories and suffering.
I'm still waiting for my PR while building up the hate toward the HO. Every single day waiting for the post-man, makes me angry, stressed and frustreated. I H8 the HO.

savas1234 · Post by **savas1234** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:47 pm

Dear Breaker29 thank you very much for the lovely comments, and i hope you are the next, i know exactly how it feels please try not to stress your self that much because in this situation you give them the reason to be happy , the more you suffer the more they enjoy it, i assure you that you will definitely get it no matter how long it takes, in the end you have served your Compulsory period and they know that by law they have no even least right to refuse your case.
please try to do what i did the last couple of months before i received my documents, try to engage your self in as many activities as you can, read some books maybe , although i know that all these would make no sense to you at the present, but really if you can do these the time will pass quicker and suddenly you'll find what you are waiting for is between your hands.
take care
Good luck

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:25 pm

Sent my EEA4 application in today 22/02/2010. Lets see how long it takes

given the horror stories I've read here so far

I am a non EEA national (Canada) with an EEA National spouse applying for EEA4. Have been in the UK for 6.5 years, initially on a 1 year EEA family permit, then had extension for a further 5 years which my wife applied for and I was on as a family member. Home Office lost our passports last time (5 years ago) so hopefully they can restore our confidence by getting it right this time.

Sent in lots of documents, her and my p60's and p45's, the original residence permit letter and my original 5 year endorsement letter, current passports.

I didnt however send in my old expired passport which has the permit stamp or any bank statements so hoping this will not adversely affect the application. Maybe I should have also sent in tenancy and mortgage agreements?

Will update this post as it happens... Hopefulyl HO have got things sorted out now and we will have our documents back in less than 6 months. Its hard without passports!

Good luck to all other appliers

savas1234 · Post by **savas1234** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:00 pm

hi Mr Anwarj, wishing you very good luck , with home office its always hopeless though, anyway i can tell you that even if you think that you have provided all the required documents the home office with no doubt will ask you about extra additional and that i bet not before at least 8-12 months from the date you sent according to their performance these days , unless as you mentioned something changes within their system.
all the best
take care

Iira · Post by **Iira** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:10 pm

savas1234 wrote:hi Mr Anwarj, wishing you very good luck , with home office its always hopeless though, anyway i can tell you that even if you think that you have provided all the required documents the home office with no doubt will ask you about extra additional and that i bet not before at least 8-12 months from the date you sent according to their performance these days , unless as you mentioned something changes within their system.
all the best
take care

We applied using EEA3 and EEA4 and got our passports back a week short of 4 months. COA took 2 weeks time. It wasn't a very straightforward application because it was a self-sufficient case and still didn't take long. The whole point is to provide every single paper from the beginning. We haven't been asked to provide any additional documents.

Breaker29 · Post by **Breaker29** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:06 am

Hi all .
For people who have been watching this space and to give them hope, I have received my passport with PR in it.. today.
Application submited 14/04/2009... received 12/03/2010
wishing all the best for those who are waiting.
I'm still in the forum, but propably in other thread...

mamag · Post by **mamag** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:31 am

Congrats , almost 1 year of waiting , HO should be ashamed of themselves

Breaker29 wrote:Hi all .
For people who have been watching this space and to give them hope, I have received my passport with PR in it.. today.
Application submited 14/04/2009... received 12/03/2010
wishing all the best for those who are waiting.
I'm still in the forum, but propably in other thread...

mego_1980 · Post by **mego_1980** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:04 pm

Breaker29 wrote:Hi all .
For people who have been watching this space and to give them hope, I have received my passport with PR in it.. today.
Application submited 14/04/2009... received 12/03/2010
wishing all the best for those who are waiting.
I'm still in the forum, but propably in other thread...

Congratulation Breaker,

Did they ask for more documents during this period ? if yes when ?

Thanks

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:21 pm

Quick update

Posted EEA4 application on 22/02/2010
Recieved COA on 15/03/2010, so 3 weeks elapsed so far... no requests for additional information from HO so far...

lina katen · Post by **lina katen** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:28 pm

Hi

I have also applied the same time as anwarj. apparently someone from the UKBA contact my lawyer for additional information so I gave them to my lawyer and he claimed he sent them on the 25th of february 2010 and now I'm wating. But I did not recieve COA yet.

Is it normal for the UKBa to contact my lawyer by phone asking for addional information(Pay Slips) before the COA is issued. how come my application is handled differently than most people who get thier COA before any further procedings.. Any advice is helpful please.

PS:anwarj I have sent you a private message. It will be great to share experiences since we have applied the same time.

savas1234 · Post by **savas1234** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:48 pm

hi everybody , just a quick one
there is no way that the HO contact on phone as far as i know
except in very rare cases.
thank you

vadimvin · Post by **vadimvin** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:06 pm

anwarj wrote:Quick update

Posted EEA4 application on 22/02/2010
Recieved COA on 15/03/2010, so 3 weeks elapsed so far... no requests for additional information from HO so far...

Hi Anwarj,
Did you send your application after 5 years of being in UK or 28 days before exercising the treaty rights. Reading the forum through, have different opinions, your experience would be appreciated.
thanks.

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:25 am

We had already done our 5 years excercising treaty rights here so posted after the 5 year period was completed.

lina katen · Post by **lina katen** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:09 pm

EEA4 Application

I did not recieved COA so I decided to contact UKBA and just recieved information that my application was recieved end if february 2010 and asigned to a case work team. I was given an 8 digit case number. I was told that the case work team did not start looking into my application yet.

Can any one tell me what that means. How can it be asigned to a case work team but not looked at? Also is the case work team the last stage of the application or is there more stages?

kellyman · Post by **kellyman** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:57 pm

Any member got their EEA4 PR and COA recently?
if so can you please post the timeline. thank you

vadimvin · Post by **vadimvin** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:40 am

anwarj wrote:We had already done our 5 years excercising treaty rights here so posted after the 5 year period was completed.

Hi Anwarj,

Any updates from your side?
I am just wondering how quick they are now with PR as I have posted my application recently as well.

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:09 pm

Unfortunately I am still waiting for that magical piece of mail to arrive through my post box. Its now been exactly 5 months since I posted it. I did recieve the COA after 3 weeks but getting a bit fed up as to why a straightforward application like mine is taking so long.

My EU spouse excercised treaty rights for over 5 years and we provided the proof of that quite clearly so it should be straightforward, alas, nothing as yet.

On the plus side, I did switch jobs (new employer) while my application was with the HO and it caused no problems. Provided copies of my COA letter and my previous passport with the original stamp and the employer accepted that. The employer has a very rigorous checking process as it is FSA regulated role, so was thankful I went without a hitch

Will post here the day it comes in the post or if anything else happens. Good luck all.

Incidentally everyone living in other countries that I've told about my application does not believe me when I tell them that UKBA holds on to your passports for up to 6 months while processing the application.

lina katen · Post by **lina katen** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:20 pm

Hi anwarj.

good to see you back on the forum. I was feeling lonely for a bit here. Not too many people applying for eea4 compared to the eea2. LOL

I called the HO two weeks ago and it's still waiting consideration. In a few days I will be waiting 5 months. I consider my application straight forward also.

Please any one who applied for the EEA4 in the last 8 month share your experiences.

mamag · Post by **mamag** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:12 pm

lina katen wrote:Hi anwarj.

good to see you back on the forum. I was feeling lonely for a bit here. Not too many people applying for eea4 compared to the eea2. LOL

I called the HO two weeks ago and it's still waiting consideration. In a few days I will be waiting 5 months. I consider my application straight forward also.

Please any one who applied for the EEA4 in the last 8 month share your experiences.

I sent my EEA4 application form on 10/04/10 after my application form was returned twice , HO received the document on 11-04-10 , finally got COA in June'10 dated 21-05-10. I consider my application straight forward but I am still waiting for my PR

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:22 am

Okay, so called HO this morning on 0151 672 5626 about my application.

It has not been seen by a case worker as yet (5 months after applying) but it has been checked for completeness. They are trying to process them within 6 months but it could take "slightly" longer (couldn't pin down how long "slightly" implies)

Also asked about return of documents. They can return any documents including passports (so you can travel with that and your COA) and will send a letter to you if they need them back.

Hope that helps everyone... hopefully only 1 more month to go now

coconutsforme · Post by **coconutsforme** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:51 am

Hi Everyone,

To be honest, it is a bit of relief when you visit this forum and read through different experiences many of us came accross with HO.

So well done to everyone who joins, shares and supports with their views.

I've noticed that it is possible to get thru to them over the phones! so there's some improvement...

Well, if you try in the early business hours, you should be able to get through, during the day, obviously, it it harder to reach them.

The Application process is indeed a long and frustrating one, but i was kinda thinking of the following idea that HO could possibly use:

Since you need to send your non EEA passport, why couldn't they just request a certified copies of all the pages of your passport??? they can allocate a panel of solicitors they would accept, the solicitor then will certify it, and we (non EEA members) will include those in the application.

this way:

the solicitors would generate extra business and revenue
the applicant would be able to travel, (as most of the EEA & EU nationals have ID cards)

and there's less risk that it will be lost.

Home office can still carry out their assessment but once the decision has been made, they can request the original passport for the stamp to be endorsed.

what are your thoughts on that?

anwarj · Post by **anwarj** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:09 pm

Coconutsforme

That sounds like too much of a reasonable and sensible idea for ukba to take up. As mentioned before, people from other countries just won't believe me when I tell them that they hold on to your passport for the duration.

lina katen · Post by **lina katen** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:47 am

All the HO have to do is charge a fee for applications so that they have enough money to hire more case worker and problem solved. but this retarded law that EEA member should not be charged for EEA applications thinking it will save us money when infact all it does is cost us a hell of a lot more than what the application fee would have cost.

So any idea that envolves charging EEA member I think is not within the law.

With this new government cutting funds on shcool projects what do you think they will do to the HO eea application budget.

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