PR (EEA) application -student without CSI , please help!

[STF2016]

Good morning

I'm preparing my application for PR (EEA) .I am facing a big dilemma. I do not have a CSI for the time when I was student and wondered if there are any exception on that.

I first entered UK in 2007 when I was 18 years and 10 months. I was enrolled into a college where I studied A Levels initially then Access to HE course until 2011 and then university from 2012 until 2015.I begin my employment in 2015.

In the beginning (2007) and for following years (until uni years in 2012) I have been living with my mum who provided the essentials : accommodation, food and financial help. No bank transfers done as we lived in the same house and cash would have been at that point the financial help. During college and university years I have worked small amount of hours with contracts and I have paid NINO and have pay slips but the length do not cover 5 years continuously at any point... so really cannot apply as QP on that base.

My mother was working full time and has been a qualified person exercising treaty rights since 2007 therefore entitled to PR on her own rights.

IN 2008 I have been issued a Blue card with no restriction to take employment in UK. I cannot remember what the application was for exactly as at that point my mum dealt with all the thing and therefore I do not know why I did not get a Yellow Card as my mum said she specified I am planning to study and possibly work part time if that would be a possibility... At that point none of us thought this is actually detrimental for me to have a blue instead of a yellow card. Never knew(until now!) about need for CSI or either private insurance as this would not have been a problem due to low costs and the fact that we like things done legally. I wish I knew but is nothing I could do now...

In one of the topics someone said that "Any EEA parent who was a qualified person in UK during same period could be considered as your EEA sponsor" would make somehow an exception from having CSI. Is that right?

I would be grateful and thankful for any advice and help please!

[noajthan]

Good morning

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In one of the topics someone said that "Any EEA parent who was a qualified person in UK during same period could be considered as your EEA sponsor" would make somehow an exception from having CSI. Is that right?

I would be grateful and thankful for any advice and help please!

No need to panic. Mom to rescue.
If mom was a qualified person she can be your sponsor - you are her direct family member.

If under age 21 no need to show financial dependency.
Looking at your timeline you may have been over 21 in or around 2010 in which case show proof of financial dependence on mom for that later couple of years.

Otherwise, did you have a foreign EHIC?
And your blue card may just be accepted in lieu of CSI (not sure) but better if you had had the student (yellow) card.

Get up to speed on FM here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... als-v4.pdf

[STF2016]

Thank you noajthan for your answer.

No need to panic. Mom to rescue. If mom was a qualified person she can be your sponsor - you are her direct family member. If under age 21 no need to show financial dependency. Looking at your timeline you may have been over 21 in or around 2010 in which case show proof of financial dependence on mom for that later couple of years.

Yes my mom is a qualified person exercising Treaty Rights in UK. She worked continuously for the last 9 years for same employer. WE lived at the same address (same place) and she paid for all bills, food and also supported me financially unless I was working (which I did during college and after for a while- but had Blue card, therefore the right to work). I was 21 at the end of 2009 but she continued to support me for existential needs +emotionally+ financially all this time.

Otherwise, did you have a foreign EHIC? And your blue card may just be accepted in lieu of CSI (not sure) but better if you had had the student (yellow) card.

I only had EHIC issued by UK, which in this case does not help. I know now that yellow card would have been a lot better and straight forward... It was a bit strange when, as well as my mom , got a Blue Card (three months lately than her to be more specific) but we thought this was great (at that time). For some reason we thought this is kind of "superior" compared to blue one...Big mistake.

Something else...

Once PR theoretically achieved as direct family member of EEA do I still need to prove the financial dependency to my mom within my university years between 2012 and 2015?

[noajthan]

Something else...

Once PR theoretically achieved as direct family member of EEA do I still need to prove the financial dependency to my mom within my university years between 2012 and 2015?

If your qualifying period is, say, 2007-2012 and you had acquired PR by 2012 then no need to exercise treaty rights after 2012.

All you have to do once you have PR status is to prove you did not lose that PR by an absence of 2 years from UK.
Rock-solid evidence is required every step of the way.

[STF2016]

Hope everyone here had a good Christmas.
I would like to thank noajthan for the advice and for the answers to my questions.
The forum is invaluable to people like me, in the turmoil of application, especially that there is no clarity on what is going to happen to us the EU citizens living in UK once Brexit will become a fact. This is such a difficult time with lots of stress and uncertainty to many of us, even if, like me, people lived here for many years. This country has become my home and I truly hope it will stay like this.
My best wishes for the new year to you all!