Hello everyone...
I applied for a residence card as the family member of EEA on 3 August 2017 and today I received the refusal letter.
My husband is German and I'm Egyptian and we are married since nine years. We moved to the UK in July 2017.
I applied as the family member of EEA exercising treaty rights in the UK as a self-sufficient person.
the reasons for refusing the applications are:
It is noted that you have not provided adequate evidence to show that you are the family member of a person exercising treaty rights in the UK as a self-sufficient person because:
- firstly, upon assessing photocopies of the bank account statements provided don't show that your EEA sponsor holds sufficient funds, it is first worth highlighting that this office cannot accept/ consider any evidence which has been printed in a manner which the issuing party or authority cannot be appropriately verified (i.e. by official templates, watermarks etc. in their original form) this includes photocopies and word processed documents devoid security features. whilst it is accepted that the evidence supplied is most likely copies or printouts of the original document or source there is no way for this office to verify if the documents have been altered, tampered with or produced directly for the purposes of this application. As such these documents cannot be solely relied on as evidence that your EEA holds sufficient funds.
- secondly, in applications such as this, this office would expect to see evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance which should be in the form of either a private insurance policy or European health insurance card(EHIC) that covers any medical treatment required whilst resident in the UK.
regarding the bank statements, we provided photocopies for three online banking accounts (printed copies) along with the other documents. the only way to prove that the accounts are correct is to open it for them on the laptop. banks don't provide stamped statements, this is archaic.
regarding the health insurance, we didn't provide it. We didn't know that it has to be provided with the documents. anyway, my husband has a private insurance policy and I have to buy one as I don't have one. We were living in Egypt before moving to the UK.
Now we have two options, the first option is appealing against the home office decision and the second is making a new application.
my husband suggested applying for a national insurance number and register as self-employed and then we can apply as a self-employed person and we make a new application for the head office then we don't need bank accounts or insurance.
while I think it is better to appeal against the home office decision.
so what is your advice in that case ?!
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