Refusal Letter (EEA QP) - Appeal, reconsideration or new application?

[Hope19]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a good start of 2020.

My partner (EU citizen) has just received a refusal letter regarding her application for a registration certificate in the UK as a qualified person (application from October 2019). In December 2019, I sent my application for a residence card in the UK as her extended family member (non-married durable partner). Her application was online and mine was by post.

The reason stated by the Home Office for her refusal was that she was unable to provide evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance (CIS) in the UK. This is true as this requirement was unclear to us in October. However, we acquired CIS for both of us in December and sent it together with my application – before we received her decision.

Considering the fact that my application depends on hers, we would like to kindly ask you about any recommendations for what we should do next.

1 – Appeal against this decision by providing evidence of our CIS?

In this case, do you have any guidance on what exactly we should write on the online appeal form? Do we need to cite any specific legislation or mention straightforward that there was a misunderstanding and we now have evidence of CIS that we will attach to the appeal?

2 – Send a reconsideration request directly to the case worker? (On the basis that the evidence of CIS is now in my process under consideration by the Home Office, which is linked to hers)

3 – Start a new EEA online application for both of us together? (We don’t know how to do this as my documents are currently with the Home Office and my visa has expired)

Thank you very much for your attention, any advice would be very helpful.

[Zerubbabel]

Hello

As your partner didn't provide the insurance during the application. the refusal was correct. That's why appealing doesn't make much sense here.

The easiest way in my opinion is to quickly fill a new application with the proper documents, including the insurance certificate.