She never actually stopped working there, no. When the contract expired they just kept her on (and kept paying her, obviously!) while they drew up the new permanent contract. Something else I just noticed - they're keeping my passport until either I'm deported or I 'secure my right to stay'. If I ap...

I don't see how they could refuse it based on her contract being a temp one.. She was still a worker, i.e. exercising treaty rights. ??? In terms of appeals. Lots of the people on here would say to rather submit a brand new application. The appeal process is very lengthy apparently. It's quicker to...

Good afternoon all, After a long wait I've just received a refusal letter for my EEA Residence Card. The application was based on a long term unmarried partner relationship (I'm a Kiwi, she's Irish, been together nearly 5 years). The reason for the refusal given was that at the time of the decision,...

Hi there, My partner and I are looking to enter the UK through EEA law seeing as she's an Irish national and I'm a non-EEA member (New Zealand). We've already got tickets booked to go back there in June (we left last year thinking it would be relatively easy to get back, how wrong we were). We haven...