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Hello all!
I’m hoping someone can advise me on the below questions. Apologies in advance if these questions have been asked before (please guide me to the right section). I’ll describe the situation briefly so those who are the guru’s ont his field can advise me.
I’m the EU national (Dutch, exercised treaty right since January 2008)
Worked in full time employment since January 2008 – November 2010
Worked in full time employment November 2010 – ongoing (maternity leave from May 2013 – August 2013). Baby holds British nationality due to me exercising treaty rights.
Husband (non-EU); came to the UK in April 2008. EEA2 issued till 30 March 2014
He studied full time for 2 years (worked part-time) and then went into full time employment thereafter. Currently working as self-employed for the past year.
My understanding is that my husbands EEA4 is issued based on me; exercising treaty right. Which is ok; as we were married when he came here and I’ve been in full time employment since.
Will is suffice if I provide 4 P60 and all my wage slips + current contract?
We will have challenge proving that we have lived together since 2008. As for the first 2 years we lived in a shared room accommodation (bed sit) where the tenancy agreement is in my name (but we did not pay any bills – as it was an all inclusive rate). Only in November 2010 we started paying our bills when we moved to a 1 bedroom apartment. Will this cause any issues. We didn’t have any joint accounts either. Believe he had one bank account which was addressed to the bedsit (perhaps his p60; when he did part-time work during the first 2 years; will this suffice¬

My second question is, we both require our passports back asap. Can we request for the to provide the EEA3 and EEA4 on a paper rather than in our passports .There are 3 reasons for this(since we know wit might take more than 5 months for them to process).
We need to attend a wedding end of June (brings me to another questions, if we don´t get this back before this time does it mean that my husband can´t travel in and out of the country without this pr stamp, because his rc would have expired on the 30th).
Both our passports expired in January 2015
More importantly: my husband’s contract is about to end and he require to have some valid visa in his passport. We have experienced continues challenges with a valid rc in his passport. Now because his contract is about to expired and the RC what will happen now

I look forward to your kind responds! Much appreciated!!!

1. You can live in shared house it really doesn't matter to UKBA

2. Yes you can ask for your passport back when you receive COA and they will issue you PR in an A4 size paper and he can travel with it

Well if his employer knows about EEA right then that wouldn't be problem. But if still it doubt there is number his employer can call
to get this confirmed by UKBA. As a family member of an EU national he can continue working / living here


GOOD NEWS is you both now skip PR and apply British Citizenship. It's already 6 years in the UK

read more here:

http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 78060.html

Many thanks for your responds.

British citizenship is indeed good news; but that does come with a price tag of £874 doesn't it...

if that's what you want in the future go for it now.
Not everyone go for it some people never apply for it even after 10/15 years

Thanks Askme!

Also another questions. So we submit the application and request his pasport back. We have to go to France in July (his residence card is up untill the end of March); can we still travel in and out the UK.
Obviously he'll be traveling with me to France; so believe a shengenvisa is not required.

Looking forward to your responds.

For British Citizenship you can use NCS . you get your originals back and they send your application with photocopies of your documents.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 36358.html


For PR application you can request your passport back after you receive COA

ok thanks! but he can still travel in and outside the country with an 'expired'/end date reached eea2/residence card?

complicated. outside where ? regarding entering or leaving a country is different for each country and as such you will have to contact the relevant embassy of the country he wish to visit

Possible strategy: Apply for PR confirmation ASAP, wait for the CoA to arrive, immediately ask for passport to be returned. That means you will have at least a letter confirming your application and your continuing rights. But I am not sure if that will be convincing to them.

Many EEA family member PR ISSUED in 30 / 45 days so he may be lucky. apply ASAP

Read here:

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

Thanks Askme. Apologies I should have been a bit more clear in my question.

so we have this wedding in July in France and his EEA2/RC is has the end date of 30 March 14. So wondered what the difficulties be to obtain a shengen visa and commute out to france and back.

But 30/45 days sounds really promising:) I'll be posting everything over this weekend:) fingers crossed it's as quick!

Thanks for the link:)