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EEA spouse rights to live in UK after divorce

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Gill Apple
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EEA spouse rights to live in UK after divorce

Post by Gill Apple » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:50 am

If anyone can advice me on my situation I will greatly appreciate it:

My partner and I were married in the UK - November 2007.
I then obtained the EEA family permit valid till March 2013.

Unfortunately we have gotten divorced, the final decree being issued in March of this year. I returned home to SA in November last year for a holiday and was then told by a immigration lawyer that I have no rights to return to the UK.

This was a shock but I tried to make a life here but I still miss the UK and really wasnt prepared not to live there anymore. Subsequently one of my british clients advised me that I do have a right to live in the UK as I was married for 3 years!

Can anybody advise me please as I desperately wish to return to my life.

My partner is a Greek citizen still living and working in the UK.

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Post by geriatrix » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:54 am

Life isn't fair, but you can be!

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