Good morning everyone! The forum is very informative, and it helped me a lot to understand basic things about retaining the rights of residence, but I have one question left.
I have been married for 16 years, but now the marriage is about to end. I am taking it rather hard, and it is very difficult to even think of anything right now, and less of all about being involved into paper work of any kind, but it doesn't look like I have much of a choice So, here is the story.
My husband is EEA citizen and I am non-EEA. I sent my Residence card application in June, but have not received any news from the HO yet. So, I cannot file divorce papers yet. I need my passport and marriage certificate back first.
More or less I understand the requirements for the retention the rights of residence. We are married for more than 3 years, we will be residing in the UK for over 1 year by the time of initiating divorce procedure, EEA should be working for the period between initiating divorce and getting the decree absolute (no problems with that). I should be working when I send the RC application to retain my rights of residence (no problems). And my husband is willing to help me providing necessary papers for retaining rights of residence.
I have a question about my current application for the RC though. I am not sure I understand if getting the RC (I guess, it should arrive by December) makes any difference. I have two options. I can revoke my application now, file divorce papers and then apply for retaining rights of residence. Alternatively I can wait until the RC arrives and then file divorce papers etc. Does it make any difference at all? Will it be faster/either to retain rights of residence if I get the RC first?
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