I came into the U.K. in February of 2008 as a student (Tier 4), switched to the PSW and worked for about 18 months before I switched back to a Tier 4 to do my masters.
Before my second Tier 4 expired, I met and married my now ex-wife who is an EEA national. I applied for the spouse visa and was granted a 5 years EEA spouse visa due to expire in May 2020. I had been living and working with this visa.
I (think I) qualified for the 10 year long residence ILR in February 2018 but because I couldn't afford the fee, coupled with the fact that I had separated from my spouse by then, she wasn't very responsive or cooperative, and I couldn't prove her residence from October 2017 to February 2018, I never applied.
I finally bit the bullet, saved up some money (£2,400.00
) and applied for ILR long residence in April 2019.I soon realised that I could try to apply for pre-settled status (or even settled) which might be approved as they have now relaxed the rules about exercising treaty rights. Since the application is free, I applied to that as well.
Long story short, the ILR was granted 4 days ago, and today the PR (EEA route) was also granted!
My question is, I read somewhere on this forum that the EEA PR application will cancel the traditional ILR so I was hoping that the PR would be approved first and I can get my £2.4k back!. That's a lot of money for me right now.
Does anyone know If I can get them to take back the ILR and efund me the money?
