I have recently been issued a Permanent Residence card and now plan to apply for Naturalization. I remember from friends who applied in the past that you can only apply for naturalization once you have held the PR card for 1 year but i cannot find anything relevant to this on the application and cor...

Directive/2004/38/EC wrote: Did you end up contacting the Free Movement Policy team? Or was this just your caseworker learning in the course of interacting with you?

No i was waiting for the rejection letter (that never came in the end) before involving them.

I have worked during my entire stay in the UK asian at heart. Best of luck with your partner's application. U Soldier - Currently there is little benefit in UK citizenship if already EEA agreed, the UK passport is better than a Greek one for visiting some places in the world but i wouldn't pay 1k fo...

Universal Soldier- A UK PR card was requested by the Home Office for my UK Naturalization application. Because of my 9 month military absence I was urged to get the PR card first so i ensure i meet the residence criteria before i apply for naturalization. AndrewBird35- It was a withheld number, i wa...

Got my application documents back this morning, along with my Residence card :D Along with my original documents there is a printout of the 'How to join' section of the British Army Website (?!), i think this is where the HO guys were looking for guidance on my case and the printout was accidentally...

I pointed to the EEA Regulations interpretation document (which the HO agent confirmed to have in front of him) and the interpretation of military service as ' service in the armed forces of an EEA State'. Exactly which interpretation document has this definition? Directive/2004, it's the document ...

Just heard back from the Home Office. I pointed to the EEA Regulations interpretation document (which the HO agent confirmed to have in front of him) and the interpretation of military service as ' service in the armed forces of an EEA State'. All he had to say was that it wasn't his call and took t...

Thanks a lot for the replies. They asked me to retract my application on the spot to avoid getting a refusal on record, they didn’t say it directly but I felt it was implied that having a rejection has a negative bearing for future applications. I asked them to call me again this afternoon as I need...

I have just had a phone call from the officer dealing with my Permanent Residence application, it will be rejected due to a 9 month absence in 2012. I am an EEA national (Greek) and the absence was necessary to fulfil my compulsory military service. My understanding was that military service is an a...