civil penalties under immigration act

[johnnyspa]

Hello everyone!

I have been browsing regularly through the forun as I am starting to fill in a EEA(FM) Residence card application for my wife. I´m Spanish and she is Russian.

We are living together in UK with a EEA2 family permit which will expire in 1.5 months, so we are starting to get ready with the next application.

When filling the form in I have found that question about civil penalties under inmigration act.

I have checked a few posts about that topic but I cannot find my answer. I do appologize. I am useless at this sort of things.

Our issue is that my wife had a refusal to enter in UK before we were married. She was given a UK tourist visa, but there was a mistake on application that was identified at London heathrow and she was refused to enter and sent back to Russia in the next plane available. Is this a civil penalty under inmigration laws? The inmigration declaration was stating that we had lied during the application. Even it was an honest mistake on our side. We were gven a 1 year ban from applying for another VISA to UK.

All this issue was explained in detail in the EEA2 family permit application and the permit was garanted to her. There are no question related to this in the EEA(FM) and I dn´t know if I should declare this as a civil penalty or no. I don´t want the home office to think we are hiding information.

Sorry for this long post. I hope you can help us, and please, do not hesitate to ask me for any further information if you need it.

Thank you very much

Best regards
Jonathan

[johnnyspa]

Hello.

No replies so far. Anyone can help, please?

Has the Home Office any sort of helpline I can contact please? I checked the website but I haven´t found anything yet.

Thank you very much.

Regards
Jonathan

[Casa]

It's not a Civil penalty.

[johnnyspa]

Thank you Casa!

Very nice from you.

Looking at the application form, it is not questioned anywhere. Do you think I should menion it anyway?

When I prepared the EEA2 family permit, that was questioned very often. In the Residence card it isn´t, but I don´t want the home office to think that I am hiding information.

Sorry if I am becoming too paranoid. It is just that we want it to success.

Thank you for your help.

Best regards
Jonathan

[Casa]

Only if you're specifically asked in the application if there has been a refusal of entry or a ban.

[johnnyspa]

Big thank you.

I have already posted everything.

I hope it will be smooth.

Best regards
Jonathan