I'm an EEA citizen with a non-EEA wife. We're temporarily in Hong Kong and my wife's family old EEA family permit expired about a month ago. We plan to go back to the UK in the early summer and so would have to get a 6-month family permit issued from here. Has anoyone on these boards tried in Hong ...

I'm an EEA citizen and my wife is not. We co-habited in the UK from Oct 2002 to Aug 2009 (so a bit less than 7 years) but got married in the UK in December 2004. We can prove co-habitation through bank statements and council tax bills etc. throughout the period. Under European law it is my ...

Thanks EU directive Guru, that was a most informative and clear answer. The new baby is not here yet, but could be any day now. Your answers have encouraged us to go ahead with the EEA4 application. I take it that even though Norway is not part of the EU (but the EEA) the same directive still ...

My wife (non-EEA) and I (Norwegian) lived in the UK between September 2002 and August 2009. We got married in the UK in December 2004 and my wife then got an EEA five-year family permit valid from March 2005 that expires March 2010. In August of this year we left the UK temporarily as my wife was ...

I am a Norwegian father of a boy just born in the UK. At the time of the birth I had lived continuously in the UK for 5.5 years and exercising my EEA treaty rights. I have not yet applied using the EEA3 form to have PR status in writing, though appreciate this is no longer strictly needed. Our son ...

Thanks for all your help John. Given that I moved to the UK in mid-October 2002, my PR status comes into effect these days. I can see that there are benefits of getting the PR sticker ASAP, though would be hard pressed to swap my Norwegian citizenship (dual is not permitted sadly).

Good point - there's an additional family member on the way (due March 2008). I gather from my reading of the law that as I would technically be a PR by then, he/she would be eligible for BC. Correct? Yet another reason to have the PR confirmed on my side or does this not matter?

Ah, that's a bit of a blow. I did indeed think that living together for 5+ years and me exercising my treaty rights was sufficient for my wife to be "dragged" along. I suppose she wasn't officially a family member until the marriage so it sort of makes sense. However, this rather important ...

Thanks for your view. Not sure I like the use of the word "interesting"...."clear cut" would have been preferable :) Can anybody else confirm that we're on the right track? The ultimate goal is for my wife to obtain a British passport, which if the EEA family member approach works means, I guess, we ...

My wife (non-EEA) and I (EEA) have now been living together in the UK for five years. We did not get married until about 3 years ago. My wife first came to the UK on a student visa, but following our marriage in December 2004 we applied and got a work/residence permit for her as EEA family member. I ...