I currently hold the UK residence card as the family member of an EEA Citizen. My Portuguese husband and I wanted to go for a city break in Amsterdam. Just to make sure that I didn't need a visa (as the first visa appointment was the day after we were supposed to leave for Amsterdam), I e-mailed the...

HAHA! Thank you You obviously noticed that I am a very highly-strung individual. Awesome!! YAY! Thanks so much for replying everyone Much love and warm, sunny, South African smiles!

Good Day, please help! So I've booked my ticket and will be arriving at Heathrow on a Friday. My partner suddenly has to attend a business meeting in another EU state on the preceding Thursday and will only arrive back at Heathrow a few hours *after* I land on the Friday morning. He is lawfully resi...

Oh, goodness! If you have the fancy, stamped, apostilled one or at least a certified copy, submit it. If not, I hope that the normal one will work for you. I have no idea if it varies from country to country, but I would imagine that it is not so. I would say submit what you have. The process is qui...

So, it took a grand total of 5 working days to process my application and another week for them to send it back to me. My application was successful. So, should anybody else need this information, I submitted the normal abridged marriage certificate issued at the ceremony along with a copy of the ma...

Molasses, what happened with the appeal? I am handing in my application for a Family Permit on Friday. I've been researching this for months and nobody had an experience like yours... and now I'm worried! Please let me know how it went at the end of the day? We haven't been married that long, and to...

Thanks everyone for the replies - much appreciated! The certificate issued on the day of the ceremony serves to say that you have been married, where and by who. It is standard and issued to everybody. I think that what I will do in this case is to get a copy of the handwritten unabridged version to...

I am applying for the EEA Family Permit (married) to enter the UK. My husband was transferred to London recently and, naturally, I would like to join him! He has dual citizenship with South Africa and Portugal, I am South African and unable to prove ancestral (Although this would be silly considerin...