Thank you for relieving some of the confusion. It still looks as if they've deliberately made it as difficult as possible for married people to live together. As Franz Kafka was also from Prague, I guess we had this nightmare coming.

I'm a native-born UK subject married to a Czech citizen (since 2006) and she has been living in the UK since 2003. We have a daughter who is a UK subject. My wife worked here for the first 3 years, so has a national insurance number and was registered under the workers' registration scheme (now fini...