If you have no immigration issues other than the refusal to issue a PRC, you and your husband can travel together back from Belgium to the UK using your passports. You may use plane, ferry or train. For you both to lawfully get past UK immigration, you will need your passport and his Belgian passport or ID card, your marriage certificate (from an EU country or in English), and his DCPR. Your expired RC might help the Immigration Officer find your case details on-line if he has any lingering doubts.galatie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:35 pmWe wanted to travel home to Belgium for the holidays and requested my passport back. I just received my passport back, and with a letter, which states that family members of an EEA national, who are not themselves EEA nationals wishing to return to the UK should apply for an EEA family permit before returning. My husband looked up the processing times for this, and they range from 15-60 days??? And he called the Home Office about this, and they said that I can only apply for the family permit outside of the UK?
There is a view that you should apply for a family permit, either to be confident of avoiding problems when you arrive at Immigration, or, which does not apply in your case, because visa nationals cannot reach UK immigration in the UK without a visa or similar (chiefly RC, FP, EEA Regulations stamp). You are a US citizen, not a visa national.