Hi All, Our eea fp application was accepted the second time. I clarified amendments thanks to European directives and information from some board members really helped. Legally they didn't have a leg to stand on. They had treated me as British and what they had said about it being a marriage of con...
Hi sp84 Feeling a bit down myself at the moment especially after reading the Draft declaration of the European Commission on issues related to the abuse of the right of free movement of persons. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/european-council/president/pdf/free-movement_pdf/ I am really unsure h...
Hey everyone, Feeling a little down today regarding the EU referendum news. Although nothing has been agreed upon or changed- it is still disheartening seeing some of the proposed restrictions. I am not yet sure how it would affect those taking the route we are (renunciation then family permit), but...
The plan for us is to move back to Belfast, Northern Ireland. That is where I am from. Long term though, who knows. Depends on work etc I would like to stay in Ireland for at least 3 years, that way my wife can get herself an Irish passport - which as long as things don't change with the Irish in t...
Hey, Well I hope you find a closer office. The original one was a 3hr plane ride and also not so cheap! So we are so happy that they did things this way with the applications. It makes things a lot easier. Maybe some Googling will help. Otherwise i remember a portion on the gov.uk website that you ...
Hi all! I also don't always get emails telling me when there has been posts sp! I check periodically... Aaaanyway, we sent in the EEA family permit application. Praying all goes well, I sent past plane tickets, about 30 photos (it helps that we had a baby in 2014) my husbands tax certificate with a...
Hi all! I also don't always get emails telling me when there has been posts sp! I check periodically... Aaaanyway, we sent in the EEA family permit application. Praying all goes well, I sent past plane tickets, about 30 photos (it helps that we had a baby in 2014) my husbands tax certificate with a...
Happy Monday folks! I never received any emails telling me that there had been posts in the thread over the weekend. Thanks for letting us know the response to the email you sent Bannoi. I am fully expecting my application to take the entire 6 months. I resigned myself to that as soon as I applied -...
Hey Bannoi, Sorry to hear that you and your wife are having to be apart :( ... Let us know what response you get from the Home Office, if any! You have probably seen people post that the wait time seems to be 4.5 - 6 months ... I think they are operating on a first come, first served basis. Like you...
Thank you Lisa!! Nice to hear from you! So sorry to hear about the issues you are having in South Africa :( that is the last thing you need - on top of all the RN, EEA worry. I am hoping that if they process mine after 4.5 months, that the US postal service doesn't take 6 weeks to get it to me! Just...
Wow tigeraam! That's ridiculous! Maybe photographs etc might help - showing that you have been "together" for a lot longer than the date that is on your marriage certificate. I know that when I was applying for my green card here in the USA, I had to provide proof that we were in a legitim...
It doesn't seem to say anywhere an official processing time or does it and I'm just missing it? I'm currently waiting on my Irish passport which I'm expecting in next 10 days or so then I am going to apply for the Irish passport card and send that as proof of my Irish citizenship for renunciation o...
Hi there, what waiting times are we seeing for renunciations at the moment Hello magicmus, When I first started looking in to renunciation (May of 2015), the wait time seemed to be around 3 months. From the summer of 2015 onward - the processing time seems to be from anywhere between 4.5 - 6 months...
Hi sp84 how are you? Thank you getting back to me :D :D Flip me the referendum is scarey thought to be honest, it's on the news everyday. Yes counting down the days till the RN comes through, hopefully we will know around the same time I sent off my RN on the 19th of November and got to the Liverpo...
Hi sp84 how are you? I'm on day 35 as well The only things I sent was my British passport & my Irish passport but I have my Irish passport card so I can still travel around Europe, and get married.. I didn't send a cover letter just my 2 passports & my birth certificate.. Hope we will here ...
Brilliant tigeraam, congratulations. Hope it all goes well. With you saying they asked for more information it just had me worried about the documents that I sent. I sent my Irish Passport card and my expired British passport, both of which show Belfast as the place of birth. I pointed that out in t...
Hey Lisa & tigerram, Thanks a lot for the telephone number and the email address. I am only in to week 5 now, so still have a while to go yet. It will be good to have the contact information handy for when the time comes! Big congrats to you both on getting your RN confirmation back - I hope the...
Hey again, Well from what I understand there would be a good period of time before any laws could be changed. From what I hear it is not just a one day this another day that scenario. Like you said! There are a lot of things that would need to take place, countries and scenarios that would need to ...
Hey Lisa! I haven't sent an envelope over yet (I haven't had a chance to go talk to the post office workers here to see how the process would work). I am only in week 3, even though it feels a lot longer than that - so I still have plenty of time to get an envelope to them. I might do it after the n...
Hey again folks - I did not check the thread for a few weeks and was surprised to see so many responses! I am glad those people that renounced a few months ago, are finally getting their responses! I sent my RN form off at the end of November. On Dec 1st 2015 I got a reply via email - stating that ...
Hey again folks - I did not check the thread for a few weeks and was surprised to see so many responses! I am glad those people that renounced a few months ago, are finally getting their responses! I sent my RN form off at the end of November. On Dec 1st 2015 I got a reply via email - stating that t...
Thank you Lisa! I am OK with the 6 month wait - as my intention all along has been to move back in the summer of 2016. The most daunting part for me is waking up and seeing news stories linked to the referendum. Even if the story contains nothing of substance, it gives me a sinking feeling in my sto...
Morning folks! Or good evening, depending on where you are!! I just spent around an hour reading this post from page 1, all the way to page 15! Like many of you, I was under the impression that renunciation would take around 3 months. I am currently in the US (but from Northern Ireland) and I am goi...
