Eligibility criteria: 25 years in UK, EEA PR status as of April 2006 Language criteria met: UK Degrees Nationality: German Method of application: NCS Date of application: 16 February 2017 Payment method: Credit card Date of receipt by HO/UKVI: unknown (NCS) Date of acknowledgement: email: 23 Februar...

Thanks so much for passing this tip on, Right ! This is so much easier and quicker than trying to get the date via an SAR, including a Fast-Track one: I received a letter with my PR date today, having sent off my letter to them less than a week ago! Happy and relieved, and somewhat taken aback at ho...

Thanks, Right, that is really helpful.

I will send off my letter shortly, taking a very similar approach; will post here when there's any news. Good luck! Hopefully this time you're successful and get the PR date.

Thanks for letting me know, Right . It seems we are in a similar situation - I'm not confident that another SAR, full or fast track, would help - so I think I will write a letter to UKVI, too. Can I ask: - Did you just write a letter citing DCPR number and issue date or similar references? Or did yo...

The quest to find my PR date continues: I have just spoken to one of the NCS in the area. Again, they don't call the home office during the checking appointment at all. However the lady suggested I should try to get a letter from the Home Office - she recently had an EEA national who received a lett...

Thanks noajthan. Actually, I did not ask them to ring about the PR date at the time, I asked them whether they would ring the Home Office about it during the checking appointment and they said no. I get your point about trying a different one - I've now found two that are within an hours travel from...

Hi noajtan Thanks, I wrote earlier in the thread that I have already contacted them. They first didn't understand my question and then said that they don't ring about the date. They ask applicants to bring the last six years' worth of payslips (or in my case self-assessments). When I explained about...

Second attempt at finding out my PR date in vain... Just had my fast-track SAR documents returned with the following: "Unfortunately, we are unable to process this request. This is because the application was not accompanied by one or more of the following, as indicated: Certified photographic evide...

Thanks again, LilyLalilu

That's good to know, I will do that then. It will be my third one this year, so perhaps I will wait until beginning of December so it's 'every other month'!

Thanks LilyLalilu That's helpful to know that they might not have any immigration related knowledge. It might be best to submit another SAR then. I did submit a fast-track one in spring this year, before submitting the EEA PR, as I wanted to find out what information they held about my absences from...

Hi, I'm also at the stage having received my DCPR recently needing to find out my PR date. My local NCS didn't know what I was talking about when I asked them whether they ring the Home Office about the PR date during the appointment, even when I explained it to them, so decided to find out myself v...

Hi, received news of my DCPR today - I had applied via solicitor. This is my timeline. Documents sent 21.06.2016 Documents received: 22.06.2016 Payment taken: 28.06.2016 Confirmation email: none received (or gone to solicitor?) DCPR received: 24.10.2016 (together with all documents) DCPR dated: 19.1...

Thanks for all your advice so far, I have a few final questions: Looking through the forum, I wonder if anyone has recently applied for the DCPR without the form EEA (PR) and received it? It would be great to hear of any experiences – how long it took, whether caseworkers asked for additional inform...

So it's not complete five years, however, potentially the years while at university might count: As I worked part-time during the term and full-time during holidays (and started my self-employment on a part-time basis), I imagine that I was entitled to NHS treatment without any extra comprehensive ...

... So it's not complete five years, however, potentially the years while at university might count: As I worked part-time during the term and full-time during holidays (and started my self-employment on a part-time basis), I imagine that I was entitled to NHS treatment without any extra comprehens...

According to the below information, I believe that you have acquired PR in 1996, after working continuously for 5 years. As long as you did not leave the UK for more than 2 consecutive years, you should still hold PR now. If that's the case you had the same entitlements to benefits as UK nationals ...

An exact timeline of when you started claiming benefits etc would be helpful. If you started claiming after 5 continuous years of exercising treaty rights in the UK (at the end of which you would have automatically acquired PR status), you were entitled to claim any kind of benefit from thereon any...

Thanks. Just to clarify: I don't have a solicitor, I rang a solicitor apparently helping people with applications for general advice (re declaring of benefits), and this is what they said. Presumably because council housing is classed as housing and homelessness assistance (listed as a public fund/...

Thanks noajthan. I would think, too, that it should not impede the application, but have been become insecure about it after the advice from the helpline (that it differs from caseworker to caseworker) and a solicitor's verbal advice to use a qualifying period ending before I moved into my current ...

Suggest checking the passport you arrived in UK on back in 199x. You may have been stamped into UK and granted ILR at that time (under different rules of that time). Failing that, it is likely you have acquired PR sometime in the past, maybe by 2006. Do you have supporting evidence of your activiti...

Suggest checking the passport you arrived in UK on back in 199x. You may have been stamped into UK and granted ILR at that time (under different rules of that time). Failing that, it is likely you have acquired PR sometime in the past, maybe by 2006. Do you have supporting evidence of your activiti...

self-employed since 1999, am planning to use the period 2010-2015 as the qualifying years. Were you self employed between 2010 and 2015? If so, did you hold comprehensive sickness insurance for this whole period?? Hi CR001, yes, I have been self-employed from 1999 all the way through and still toda...

I am a German national without dependents or spouse and have lived in the UK for 24 years. I want to apply for the document certifying permanent residence, then for citizenship. I have been exercising treaty rights throughout these years, self-employed since 1999, am planning to use the period 2010-...