I posted my messages somewhere further up the thread some years ago, and I came back to follow up as it's about time to start preparing for the renewal of our son's passport. (We have discussed the futility of this at length: if a person CAN change the name on their foreign passport at will, then th...
Having read some rather emotional and judgemental comments on this thread, I feel a very tiny bit unsettled. I voted "out". Did that make me a person who was so intellectually challenged that he could easily be "incited" by a certain politician whom a few here so passionately dislike? Do you really ...
Application type: Adult first time, naturalised, in-country Application method: Online Application date: 17/03/2016 Declaration form sent: 04/04/2016 (RM special delivery) Declaration form delivered: 05/04/2016 (Liverpool) Status changed to "Declaration form received": 06/04/2016 Interview booked: 0...
Sylwia, You've obviously done everything that you were supposed to do. I think they are just taking a p###. You can write to the head of the HMPO: Mark Thomson Director General, Her Majesty's Passport Office 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF It's probably a good idea to use a recorded delivery and ...
If I remember correctly, I just wrote to the head of the passport office and that fixed the mess in the end (after a really long trail of incompetence), but I cannot say it works for everyone, and it isn't probably worth doing. I think the only realistic way forward for you at the moment is to have ...
Sylwia, Yes. We've been through that, too. We've got both of our kids registered in Poland. My mother-in-law went to the town hall and got them registered. I think my wife had written some kinda statement beforehand to nominate her mother as her representative (but I may be wrong). Once they were re...
Sylwia, We've "almost" got into a situation like that. Our son has Polish and Japanese passports and the latter has no middle name at all while the former has his Polish middle name. So, I wrote a ridiculously lengthy (and utterly absurd) letter like this: "(Quote) Date:####### To: Caseworker, HMPO ...
Why don't you simply cut the upper right corner of the cover page and punch a few holes through the machine-readable area to "cancel" it yourself? After all, it's expired and the Polish diplomats have apparently told you that it had already been "cancelled", anyway. I don't think it's a criminal off...
I've dumped this on the other thread: Vienna Convention on the law of treaties, 1969 Article 69 - Consequences of the invalidity, termination or suspension of the operation of a treaty "(b) Acts performed in good faith before the invalidity was invoked are not rendered unlawful by reason only of the...
Vienna Convention on the law of treaties, 1969 Article 69 - Consequences of the invalidity, termination or suspension of the operation of a treaty "(b) Acts performed in good faith before the invalidity was invoked are not rendered unlawful by reason only of the invalidity of the treaty." Article 7...
Eligibility criteria: Spouse of British citizen, 3 years (5 years on Tier 1 (General) for ILR) Method of application: Wandsworth NCS Payment method : Debit card Previous nationality: Japan --- Date of application: 23 DEC 2015 Date of receipt by Home Office : 24 DEC 2015 Email acknowledgement : 15 JA...
My wife's case: -- Eligibility criteria: EEA national (Poland), WRS, PR certificate + 1 year Language criteria met: UK degree Method of application: Postal Date of application: 18-07-2015 Payment method: Debit card Date of receipt by UKBA: 20-07-15 Additional evidence of residence was requested some...
+ If I was resident in the UK (with my EEA partner) for a continuous period of 5 years, but for most of the time I also held a T1(G) visa, then can it still be considered that I was in the UK in accordance with the EU laws relating to free movement rights that were in force during the five-year peri...
But consider this scenario: I get a EEA2 RC and do not bother extending the T1(G), subsequently for one reason or the other I'm unable to apply for EEA4 PRC... then is it possible to go back to the ILR route? I'm guessing not.. Correct. you cannot go back to the ILR route unless you're prepared to ...
I understand that I should be able to apply for a Permanent Residence Card (which is equivalent to Indefinite Leave to Remain?) after having spent 5 years in the UK and also 5 years of living with the EEA family member. i.e. it does not matter when the EEA Residence Card itself was issued? Am I cor...
For heaven's sake, stop blaming your wife!
It's your residence card and your application.
You're the one who's been here for over a decade, and not your wife.
So when SU collapsed, people could get citizenship depending on which country after the collapse they were in? In most cases. For example, a good friend of mine is a citizen of Kazakhstan even though his father is Jewish and mother Russian. He doesn't speak Kazakh at all, for a start. The obvious e...
> a) if not broken by these 3 months gap my PR would have been acquired 2007 (date of registration) + 5 years 2012 and then a year on top = 2013 if broken then Sept 2010 + 5 years = Sept 2015 and then extra year to be able to apply for naturalisation -is that correct? Correct. > b) if not broken thi...
To my understanding if I go down EEA3 route I will lock myself out from applying for a year from getting PR as from what I know one needs to hold PR for a year before being able to apply for naturalisation. You acquire your PR status automatically after 5 years of exercising treaty rights. EEA3 is ...
People have short memories, indeed. Within my life time, Europe saw such changes in a massive scale. When the Soviet Union collapsed, everyone was basically allowed to live in the newly-independent states of their residence in at the time of independence. Whether they could automatically acquire the...
The easiest way might actually be to bit the bullet and spend £55 (EEA3). After all, you were out of work for only three months and they may just fail to pick it up if you treat it as just a long and unpaid holiday. Did you apply for any job during that period? If so, you can attach a printout of yo...
Having spent loads of money to live here legally, I " usually " get a bit wound up by this sort of stuff, but for the sake of my love of Slavic Europe, here comes my thought experiment. The only way out as far as I can see is: 1. Get married in Russia, or perhaps Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova etc where ...
First of all, your wife is an EEA national and can stay here as she pleases. That's why she is not normally qualified for "leave". The UK government cannot arbitrarily give or take away her right to reside here. That means, she has two options. One is to reside here as your spouse entirely based on ...
Non-EU don't obtain PR status automatically. They need to apply using EEA4 form. No, that isn't true. Non-EU nationals also obtain PR status automatically unless they cease to be a family member before the end of the five-year period (divorce, etc.) Directive 2004/38/EC , Article 16: "1. Union citi...
