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EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to apply ?

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:42 pm
by cooperakis1
Hi there,

My partner has a EEA FP but expiring the next week. Which is the last day that she can apply for an EEA EFM?

Is the expiring day of the FP the last day that she can apply?

What happens until she gets the EFM Residence card? Does she get a letter that her application is under consideration?

Thanks so much.

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:46 pm
by Obie
It is important that she applies ASAP, otherwise she will lost the right under Regulation 7(3), and hence the right to work or accept offer of employment.

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:53 pm
by cooperakis1
Thanks a lot Obie,

if she applies today with 5 only days left of her FP, can she still be in the UK legally?

How we will know that the HO received her application and have that as a proof?

Will she get a letter that confirms that she is here legally ?

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:00 pm
by Obie
Why did you live it till the last minute.

Is she working in the UK? Is there further evidence of a durable relationship since she arrived?

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:03 pm
by cooperakis1
She was focused on finding a job.

No she is not working yet.

Yes we have been living together in the UK for more than 2 years, same house, same bills etc.

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:07 pm
by Obie
So her 5 years has expired or her 6 months?

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:11 pm
by cooperakis1
No she was on student visa for 1 year then working on a tier visa and then another FP, but her grandfather died she had to go back before she applied for the RC the first time and now she was just focusing on jobs.

would you thing that it will be better to do a civil partnership quickly so she will be considered as a FM, hence no need to have a RC until the RC will arrive?

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:13 pm
by Obie
You need to send the application, and a COA with right to work will be granted.

Re: EEA FP applying for EEA EFM-which is the last day to app

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:18 pm
by cooperakis1
Thanks so much Obie.

but as I read on this forum the COA takes some months. What she will do these months?