Code 1 a stamp

[Morganj]

Firstly may I just say that without this forum I would have never found out how I could bring my wife back to the UK. Thank you to everyone here.

I still have one question though..... On Monday 17th dec 2012 we landed at Heathrow arriving from Athens. We managed to fly with no visa! At Heathrow my wife was issued with a Code 1a stamp valid for six months. Does anyone know wether we are able to leave and return back on the same stamp.

For anyone ready this , if you want to know what happened and how we did it I will be more than happy to answer any questions. After all you people did it for us. Thanks once again.

[Jambo]

Code 1A is just an entry stamp. If you leave and come back, you need to provide the same proof again (evidence of relationship to EEA national, copy of the EEA national passport).

If she is a visa national, she will probably have difficulties getting on a flight without a visa. If she is a non visa national, it should be fine as long as she carry the evidence mentioned above with her.

[Directive/2004/38/EC]

What is your citizenship and that of your wife?

You should find it easy to go to by bus/ferry/ship to France or to Ireland.

I would not normally recommend flying. But you seem to have done the flying part well. Congratulations to both of you!

[saidbshah]

Hello guys,
I have a question is it possible to get code 1a whose partner is a British citizen, or there is some other alternative status for someone who is going to join partner who is British?
Thanks

[GMB]

Hello guys,
I have a question is it possible to get code 1a whose partner is a British citizen, or there is some other alternative status for someone who is going to join partner who is British?
Thanks

In general the EEA freedom of movement laws only apply to an EEA/EU citizen exercising treaty rights in an EEA/EU country other than their own. While some EU governments have extended those rights to their own citizens as well, there's no requirement in the law to do so, and the British government has taken very much the opposite approach: if you're a British citizen then you're under UK immigration law, not EU law.

There are a couple of exceptions to this, for dual nationals (and only in very narrow circumstances), and those British citizens who have exercised treaty rights in another EU/EEA state while together with a non-EU/EEA spouse or family member. This is under the Surinder Singh ruling, and you'll find a lot on that law here in these pages.

Bottom line: if you're not a dual national or you have not lived and worked in another EU/EEA state while your family member was with you, then unfortunately you're at the mercy of UK immigration law.