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Retaining EEA family member right of residence

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Retaining EEA family member right of residence

Post by reygo » Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:17 pm

Hi,

i just come to realize that I'm one of the ones who fall into the trap of British stupid immigration laws. I'm a EEA National leaving in the UK since 2008. Just had my PR back in 2014 and become BC in 2015. During that time I've married my Non-EEA national wife in 2013 and brought her to UK as EEA family member in 2013. As you can see, sin 2015 i reckon she has lost their rights to live in the UK sin 2015 when i become BC. We even had a baby (British born) last year, and she has been working since 2013 in a transnational company, paying taxes and NI. We have been in and out the country a lot of times sin 2015 and we haven't faced any problems with the UK border. She is now due to apply for her PR as a Family Member of an EEA national and reading all this, now is making me nervous. Is not only the fact she has been illegal in the country for almost 4 years now, but also the fact that her company may be in trouble if they found out about this. Also, losing 4 years to try to get her PR is not easy to take in, now even more with all the Brexit issues adding up and all the money encountered to start a new path from scratch as a spouse of a British National (if this is still allowed after she being illegal for 4 years in the country without knowing it). Even calling to some of the EEA support lines, after 3x times, it seems that even them are confused by not even knowing what to do in my case, and other saying positive news and other negative news about it. Could you bring me some light on this? have you known a similar case than mine that after applying for the PR have been rejected or approved? To be honest, it never came to my mind that upgrading my status in the UK would have been a bad decision and even less, that this would have brought consequences to my wife legal status in the UK. Hope you could read this. Many thanks. Regards

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Re: Retaining EEA family member right of residence

Post by CR001 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:01 pm

I have split your post from the 2013/4 topic where you posted. Kindly refrain from digging up old threads.
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