vk112014 wrote:Hey everyone,
I'm helping a few friends with their EEA PR applications (I got granted British citizenship 2 years ago) and some questions came up that I hoped you can help me with.
1) Start date of the 5 year continuous period: in several sections they ask you about the date you entered the UK and for evidence of residency and employment 'starting from when you entered the UK'. I did my application after having been in the UK for 6 years so I entered the arrival date and my documents covered either 6 or 5 years, however, my friends have been here for 14, 12, 7 years so it'd make a big difference to list all absences, employment, etc. for only 5 or for all years. What is your experience with this?
If someone arrived from Poland/ Hungary in 2002, do they enter the arrival date but provide documents only from 2011? Should they add a cover letter to make this clear?
2a) WRS: no registration or having lost the registration papers for A8 nationals (registration was needed bw 2004- 2011)- how does this affect your application? If you state that you didn't register cause your employer didn't require you to (I understand this should not have happened), do you still have a chance to get PR?
2b) WRS: related to question 1), if you did not register in the scheme but you have to cover only the past 5 years, it's not an issue to have no WRS papers, I assume. Any experience with that?
3) When it comes to proof of residence, does an internet bill count as a utility bill?
Many thanks for all your answers and good luck with the paperwork!
Best wishes,
V
Your friend/s are free to join
ImmigrationBoards.
1) It all depends when a person's qualifying period started.
In your example, how do you know your friend didn't acquire PR in 2007 ? (ie 5 years after 2002).
PR is
not 'granted' by the application for DCPR (rather, it is
acquired automatically after the first period of 5 years of continuous exercise of treaty rights);
it does
not necessarily depend on just the last 5 years in UK.
Absences are important once someone has automatically acquired the holy grail of PR (settled status) because you need to convince the caseworker that PR has not been lost in subsequent years.
State all timelines. The caseworker will assess and weigh up the case based on that and the associated documentary supporting evidence.
A cogent cover letter can help.
No need to Spammy Spammer your application and suppress information to try to make a 'good' application.
If you don't know what you're doing you may get it wrong and mess up the application anyway.
The applicant also has to sign the Declaration on the form to vouch for the information provided.
2a) Yes.
Although the employer sounds dodgy or plain uninformed/ignorant and was committing an offence to employ such a person.
Proof of WRS registration will be required. A HO caseworker will not do the running around to join the dots and give any benefit of doubt.
If an applicant meets the requirements with some valid qualifying period (supported by rock-solid evidence) they will be granted a PRC / DCPR.
(They will not be 'penalised' for having no WRS at earlier date).
Have you contacted the WRS bureau to check on WRS status and retrieve a certificate (if it was simply lost)
Here is email address for WRS-related enquiries:
workerregistration.scheme@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
2b) No (correct).
Yes - search in the forum.
3) Maybe. But they are easily manipulated or tampered with and so are untrusted in isolation.
You need much more than that.
