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zafarzafar80
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Retention of 4EUFam

Post by zafarzafar80 » Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:58 pm

Hi All,
I would appreciate if you could give your feedback.

I am non EU and my Ex wife is an EU national. We were married in Ireland in 2006 and got divorce in 2011 in her native country (EU member state). I was issued stamp 4EUFam in 2007 which is valid until mid of 2012, i am in full time employment and never claimed any benefits both by me and by my Ex.

I informed through my solicitor the EU Treaty section that we are divorced and theefore exercising my own treaty rights i should have retention rights on my residence card.

Today i got a acknowledgement letter from the EU Treaty Rights Section in which they said that i would be contacted in due course.

I work in IT and if i couldn't get extension on time, i could loose my job. Any body in the similar situation. and what happened to them.

What are the retention chances ? Could the EU treaty rights section make any problem ?

Thanks in Advance
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Post by Monifé » Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:52 pm

If you have retained all documentation for the first 3 years of your marriage/residence card pertaining to your wifes employment and to you living jointly as husband and wife, and with you currently working now, then I do not see any problem why you cannot retain your leave to remain in your own right.

Bear in mind, they probably will not issue you with a new card. Rather let you finish the rest of your current card and then you can apply for permanent residence in your own right.

As long as you were married for 3 years or more (before the decree absolute in your divorce), you have documentation to prove your wife was working for the years while you were married and you are working yourself, you should be fine.
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Re: Retention of 4EUFam

Post by Ben » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:21 pm

zafarzafar80 wrote:We were married in Ireland in 2006 and got divorce in 2011
Did your marriage and residence in Ireland span 5 years?
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zafarzafar80
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Post by zafarzafar80 » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:57 pm

Hi Ben,
I got married in Ireland in October 2006 and got divorced in June 2011.
So all together we were together as a married couple for nearly 5 years and i am on stamp 4 for the past 4 years and 2 months.

Any suggestion ?
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Post by walrusgumble » Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:33 am

zafarzafar80 wrote:Hi Ben,
I got married in Ireland in October 2006 and got divorced in June 2011.
So all together we were together as a married couple for nearly 5 years and i am on stamp 4 for the past 4 years and 2 months.

Any suggestion ?
what monife said.make sure you have solid proof that you had lived with spouse in the eu for that period as well
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