Hi all, I've been helping a friend with their EEA residence card and now pre-settled status application recently, and we have come across a subtle ambiguity that I wonder if anyone else has some thoughts on: With the settlement scheme, if a (extended) family member gets pre-settled status now and wa...
But, there is one difference: Mr Lounes was unlawfully present in the UK, and could not benefit from the routes available from British immigration. In the OPs case, they are lawfully present, so their right to a family life will not be curtailed if the EEA route is not available to them, which was ...
The key point is that you were not an EEA family member with an EEA residence card under the ewa/EU rules before your spouse became British and you got married. Is it a requirement that the relationship to the EEA sponsor already existed at the time the sponsor acquired British citizenship? My unde...
Don't know about 2 and 3, but for 1, you can include a pre-addressed, pre-paid special delivery envelope with your application for return of documents. You can get those at a post office.
I don't think it makes any difference for naturalisation if you apply for settled status or not. For one, the requirement for naturalisation is to have been free of immigration time restrictions for 12 months, not to have been so under a specific rule or category. That it, it's not like settled stat...
I assume you mean the EEA residence card, not family permit. RC is for when you are already in the UK, FP is for entering the UK. So just to check, when you say " you do not currently live together", but then you say you "have been living in (your) partner's house in recent months" - which is it? Do...
PS: Funnily enough something similar was just discussed in another thread recently, albeit at the time as a purely hypothetical scenario: post1745324.html#p1745324
My understanding is that to gain permanent residence under EU rules (respectively settled status under the EU settlement scheme), one has to have been resident in the UK 5 years under EU rules . In other words, the clock for that starts only when you start being in the UK under EU rules. There is a ...
1. Correct, you will only get PR from 5 years after your arrival. By that time, if Brexit goes ahead, it'll be "settled status" rather than PR. 2. For PR, if you were a student you would have to show that you had comprehensive health insurance. (NHS doesn't count. EHIC card from your home country do...
Also, several of the proposals discussed recently mention "a" customs union, or "close alignment with" the single market, etc.; rather than membership in "the" customs union or the single market. I think ultimately (IF they were to go in this direction), they might seek to negotiate an arrangement s...
Application posted on : 26/2/2019 Received by UKVI/HO on : 27/2 Payment taken on : 4/3 No confirmation email. Bio letter received on : 11/3 Biometrics Enrolled on : 11/3 COA With Work : - COA Without Work : 11/3 (same envelope as biometrics letter) Documents Returned on : 21/3, with letter saying RC...
Rarely do they act retrospectively though. Yes they did, when the con-lib govt changed the criteria for eligibility for EEA-PR back in 2014 retroactively. I was eligible according to the old criteria but not the new ones. And just one more word: Windrush! Any government can change immigration rules...
I don't think that place of issue of the passports would make any difference. But if the passports show you're Portuguese I don't understand why they wouldn't let you board. Did they tell you any reason at all? Who exactly was it that told you? Someone from the airline? Or immigration? Bear in mind ...
Oh, I see. Supposedly you can ask them to return your passport when you apply for the RC, and should get it back in two weeks or so, but I am not sure if that always works reliably. If you do go abroad to apply for the FP, as I understand it you will still have to provide all the same evidence of yo...
Why do you plan to get the family permit from outside the UK, as opposed to a residence card from within the UK? As I understand it, the family permit is only to allow you entry into the UK; once you are here you would in any case have to apply for a residence card. If you're already in the UK, usua...
2. At the end of my online application I could print out the biometric enrolment doc - is this the one I need to take to the post office or do I need to wait for one to arrive by post?
I believe that's the one you take to the post office.
Supposedly you can also include a prepaid return envelope with the application and a cover letter asking for your passport to be returned upon receipt, and that should get it back to you in two weeks or so. I am unsure though if they would return the BRP, so going abroad would still be tricky, unles...
If the HO has already given the green light for the wedding to take place in April, you will be fine. When you get married you will be the direct family member of an EU citizen, an as such, as long as your husband continues to be a qualified person in the UK, you will have an automatic right to acc...
Just a thought, but you could also try a subject access request with UKVI / border force: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/requests-for-personal-data-uk-visas-and-immigration Even if your passport isn't stampted, they might still have at least a partial record of your movements into and ou...
In the guide and all other documents I have seen it says explicitly that presence in the UK 5 years before the application date is the one requirement for which there is no discretion whatsoever. So I imagine it would be rejected. Can she apply after the travel?
One last thing (sorry for two posts in the row, not sure how to edit my previous post), I have found the following EU rules, that (still?) are applicable to UK: ... http://www.eearegulations.co.uk/Regs2016/ByPage/regulation_03 same is stated here (scroll down to Permanent Residence section): https:...
The way I understand it is that you are only a director, NOT self-employd. Self-employed refers to sole traders, who are themselves the business as a legal entity. With a limited company, the company exists as a separate entity, and you are acting as its director. As for proof that you live here, th...
