As an EU national, your wife and her spouse can go to any EU country to visit or to seek work but you must have enough funds to support yourselves and would she still receive the salary in Czech, if she leaves?

Hi I haven't tried either the us or train as we got the EEA FP before and yes we were refused it once If you take the coach then you have to get off the coach at the French/UK border and go through UK border so this will be when you are admitted to UK or not but if you show your EU residence card an...

Has anyone received their PR card as a family member of UK national?

Is this also the same for PR for non-EU partner in that all we need to supply is passports and prove of union to get PR residence card?

Will I be able to claim child benefit and child tax credits or would this be a problem when applying for PR?

Hi thanks jambo
Do you know where this is documented either on UK government website or EU law?
Does anyone have experience of this?

As a UK national, if I claim child benefit or tax credits under self sufficiency, is this allowed or would this mean my partner would be refused PR?

My partner has been granted a residence card of a family member of an EEA national for 5 years.

I just wanted more information about what Lucapooka said. Does someone who has PR in UK not have to be exercising treaty rights?

I am a UK citizen and my non-EU partner has entered the UK and been granted a 5 year residence card as a family member of an EEA national. We have been claiming working tax credit and will soon be eligible for child tax credit and child benefit. Are we entitled to them and will it affect my partner'...

Quoting lucapooka "It's the EU national who has to show how he or she has exercised the treaty rights for the previous five years (or otherwise be exempt from this due to having PR). Only if the EU national has been self-sufficient on the income of the non-EU dependant partner, would there be a need...

According to the following, your spouse etc will automatically acquire the right of permanent residence so why is it necessary to show prove of exercising treaty rights if you are just requiring prove of rights already acquired? "After living legally in your new country in the EU continuously for 5 ...

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/student/non-eu-family-members/spouses-children_en.htm According to this information, it is not necessary to supply any other documents apart from a valid residence card and bank statements etc to prove residency in order to get a Permanent Residence car...

To enter the UK you need to get to the border, show your passports and marriage certificate and they have to let you in, if you go via Ireland or France, I don't think it matters. It may be better to enter by train, bus or ferry as airlines may not let you on the plane without a family permit. Once ...

Your application would be on the basis of being a 'self-sufficient' person under EEA Treaty Rights, so this is the term you need to focus on. As mentioned above, you'll need to have comprehensive sickness insurance in your name covering the whole family, including your working partner (regardless of...

my Non-EU partner is working. I am and plan to continue to be a homemaker, stay at home and look after the kids while she works. After being here 5 years can she apply for Permanent Residence? As she is working but EU National is not? I received a reply from EU advice but wanted to know of any exper...

Due to more research I have found that the 5 years start from date of entry. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:158:0077:0123:EN:PDF Article 16.2. Paragraph 1 shall apply also to family members who are not nationals of a Member State and have legally resided with the Uni...

spouse has entered the U.K on an EEA FP (Surinder Singh ruling) and we now have residence card so will soon be considering to apply for a permanant one Would I need to prove I have been working for the whole five years? My wife has been working for 2 years and I for 3. would this be sufficient or ne...

I'm a British Citizen previously exercising treaty rights in EU - spouse has entered the U.K on an EEA FP (Surinder Singh ruling)
What documents would she need to apply for a permanant residence card as I don't see how I can exercise treaty rights in my own country.

We have re-applied for the EEA Permit again with photos of my wife and I together but no real proof of our living at the same address which is what they wanted and Signpost told me they couldn't do anything except take the case to EU court but they didn't want to do that until we re-applied for the ...

I would think that a refusal would not effect entry as entry is an EU right but EEA FP is just a UK Visa in disguise flounting EU Law.

Does this change anything?

http://eumovement.wordpress.com/2010/08 ... to-travel/

Just a lot of people seem to be getting refused recently judging by this and other websites

I would just turn up at the airport and border.

http://eumovement.wordpress.com/2010/08 ... to-travel/

Has anyone tried this?

Has anyone just turned up at the UK border and enter WITHOUT the EEA Family Permit just with marriage certificate and passports?

Since most EEA FPs are refused now I don't think you will get it in view of your previous illegally.
You will really have to prove that you are only going for 2 weeks with a pre-arranged tour or flights / hotel bookings etc

The exact words they used were that they refuse the EEA FP "You have applied for and EEA family permit for admission to the United Kingdom as the spouse of a European Economic Area national, but I am satisfied that it is a marriage of convenience" What else do you need to know? We have 5 year Reside...

We were in India, Indonesia and mainly living at her family's home, we've been in Bulgaria the last 6 months.

EU say the UK is wrong about it but that they can't really do anything - they said it's U.Ks decision - very prompt reply from EU Signpost though!

no reasons given to support their claim that my marriage is one of convenience They said we haven't given enough information. ie. bank statements / utility bills etc but under EU Law The Member State of destination should grant you every facility to obtain the necessary visa, which shall be issued f...