EU Settlement Status Family Permit

[Steven52]

I am an EU citizen living in the UK, naturalised as a Brit, and under the new version of the EU Settled Status Family Permit form, I see that as a naturalised citizen, I can now (unlike a year ago!) now apply for the EU Settled Status Family Permit. Fantastic!

I want to bring my non-EU mother. The application looks very straightforward.

I have my birth certificate and passports, and she has her passport. Since dependency is assumed, we don't need anything else, do we?

For the birth certificate (I was born in a non-EU country as well, the same one she is in), do I need to have her get an apostille and certified translation into English in order to prove that she is my mother, or what documents/verification do they want in order to prove that she is indeed my mother?

Thank you!

[Zerubbabel]

I want to bring my non-EU mother. The application looks very straightforward.

When it comes to immigration, there is nothing straightforward with the Home Office.

For anyone who is in the UK with already an EEA card and still meeting the conditions of the stay (still dependent and/or part of the household of an EEA national still living in the UK and exercising Treaty Right), the Settled Scheme is easy. It may take more or less time, they make ask for more or less of documents, but at the end of the day, nobody qualified was refused.


For any dependent outside the UK, it's unfortunately less straightforward. You may find cases that seem to have worked out of the box, like this one:

eea-route-applications/eu-settlement-sc ... 83013.html

However, most often than not, the Home Office would push back strongly such applications.

You can use the post above and try your luck. If it doesn't work, you won't be able to get visitor visas for your mum in the future as she would have shown intention to immigrate to the UK.

[Steven52]

Thanks.

The caseworker guidelines say unless there is a question to the suitability of the person (crime, dishonesty, etc), as long as the person is proved to be your parent (proved via a birth certificate) and you are proved to be an EEA citizen who naturalised (UK pasport, current EU passport, etc etc) and would be granted SS now if you had applied if you weren't a Brit as well, that there are no other reasons for a denial. Yes, I know the home office can and often is brutal and very very strict, but, it seems like with a straightforward case (EU/UK citizen, work full time so I qualify as still exercising treaty rights and have for the past 10 years, birth certificate clearly shows she is my mother, dependency does not need to be proved under the SS status), I don't see how it could go wrong. Am I just being too optimistic? I have read every single page of the caseworker guidelines and yes, I would never expect to use the word straightforward when it comes to the HO, but it does seem to be that way with this one?