EEA2 as student -- lost passport, funding questions

[ampersand55]

Hello everyone.

I am an American married to a German national. She is doing a PhD with a fully funded award. I applied for an RC in January, a week after we were married. This was handled by a solicitor. The RC was granted two months later. I successfully used it to travel to Hamburg with my wife in early May.

In late May, two weeks before a planned trip to San Francisco, we discovered that my passport was missing. My wife had thrown it out accidentally while we were moving furniture. We made a titanic effort to find it, even going to recycling center to see if it ended up there.

I made a fresh application on June 21, handling things myself this time. I received the COA on June 28. When I first applied, my wife had eight months left of her student funding. In October, her funding stops and she will have to pay her own way for her final year.

In my application, I included (along with the passports, marriage certificate, photographs, CSI from BUPA, her university confirmation, etc.)

* A copy of the old RC (not that it will speed anything up)

* Grant information + payslips to show that she can pay for her studies until October 2013.

For after October 2013 (here's where it gets tricky):

* A stamped letter from her university certifying that she is only responsible for her living costs during her final year.

* A letter stamped and signed from LloydsTSB showing that we have £24,800 in the bank. It certifies we have had the money for two months in the account. I didn't send original bank statements because we use online banking for this account.

* AND three of my payslips and my P60 showing that I have an income of £27,000 per year. However, I did not include a letter from employer setting out my job title, employment details, etc. I sent that along separately yesterday. I hope they will put that letter into the full packet when it comes to be considered, but considering they just relocated to Durham, I have my doubts.

My questions are:

Will they have a problem with the signed and stamped bank letter, or having the money for only two months? (It was a wedding gift).

Will the payslips+P60 only cut it?

I didn't bother with this stuff on the first application, as she had eight months of funding left. Now, she's only got July, August, and September, which could conceivably run out before the RC is issued. We have more than enough to pay for her after October, but is this evidence okay?

Does the fact that the fee was introduced the week after I applied mean that my application will be dealt with as low priority, or get lost in their administrative shuffle from moving from Liverpool to Durham? Should I send in the £55 fee just to be on the safe side?

Does this sound generally fine? Am I freaking out over small details?

[ampersand55]

On the 10th, I sent in a second copy of my employers letter, a new bank statement, and my wife's final AHRC payslip.

Any advice on the situation I've described? Who can I write to in order to confirm that my additional documents (sent to Durham, original application sent to Liverpool right before the move) have been added to my file?

[macpie]

On the 10th, I sent in a second copy of my employers letter, a new bank statement, and my wife's final AHRC payslip.

Any advice on the situation I've described? Who can I write to in order to confirm that my additional documents (sent to Durham, original application sent to Liverpool right before the move) have been added to my file?

Hmm...I posted my EEA4 application to Liverpool on 29th of June. Waited for the COA with the ref number until 10th of July and resend some additional bank statements using the address from the COA. It was Liverpool address. I was also wondering whether it's possible at all to find out if my statements were added to my application file.