Need help with my EEA EFM application!!!

[dariaaa]

Hello everyone! I have so many questions and no one who can answer them.
I am failed asylum seeker, my last appeal was refused 2 months ago. My solicitor stopped getting legal eid for me so the case was closed. Then I went to see a different solicitor just to see if there's still something I can do and he told me about this EEA (EFM) application as I told him that I have a boyfriend here.

Me and my boyfriend been together for a year now,but we know each other for way more than that. He wanted to get married first but as solicitor told me EEA EFM will be better for both of us. He is an EU citizen and has lived here for more than 8 years and has been working for the last 3 years.

The problem is, it's been 2 months since they refused my last asylum application and I still haven't sent my EEA EFM one. It's only because I was doing it on my own and needed more time to get all the documents I needed. So my first question is - will my previous immigration case affect EEA EFM application? Is there going to be a problem with me taking such a long time to send it? I know it won't be easy, of course. I've been going through this immigration route for last 2 years and I'm 19.

So do you guys think that It will actually work? I'm sending it this week. Tomorrow or Wednesday. Please let me know, I really need help.

[noajthan]

Unfortunately to succeed under the EEA (EFM) route you have to have been in a relationship akin to marriage for 2 years. Its not for a kind of bf/gf relationship.

[Casa]

In my honest opinion, no it won't work.

In order to qualify as an extended family member of an EEA citizen, you would need to submit documented proof that you have been living together in a durable relationship 'akin to marriage' for no less than 2 years.

The Case Worker would expect to see evidence of joint commitments such as shared finances, both names on bills, tenancy or mortgage.

I assume from your post that you will be unable to do this.

Why has the solicitor advised against marriage?

Edit: Pipped by noajthan

[dariaaa]

yeah, I have read about it. But we are planning our future together and have plans to get married. I really can't imagine being without him.

Will they not even give us a chance to go to court? What do you guys think a better way to go?

[Casa]

Marriage.

From December of this year there will no longer be the option to appeal a decision in the UK. Appeals will have to be heard outside of the UK.

The Home Office aren't interested in what your plans for the future together are. You need to meet the Rules as the situation is now.

An application as an unmarried partner where you are short of 1 year of co-habitation and no evidence of a relationship 'akin to marriage' will be refused.