thank you both, that's reassuring. I'll only hand in evidence of redundancy and the job seeker registration then and leave out anything to do with benefits.

thanks again to everyone who commented

oh dear, something else occurred to me while reading other posts. So the government made EEA job seekers ineligible for housing benefit in 2014? It seems not only I but also my council didn't know that because I did receive some support while unemployed. It's not technically my fault that the local ...

I have the JC registration and the job offer from my current employer, I don't have any records of other applications or interviews. But then the important bit should be the fact that I found a job, I hope! Will just have to give it a go, if that's not good enough I would have to wait another 4 year...

I do hope that I should be ok.. I was made redundant at the end of 2014 and registered as a job seeker in Jan 15 (very glad now I did this, seeing that the internal home office guidance requires this!). I had a job offer by mid Feb and started my current job at the beginning of March. Already at the...

hi thank you for your help! Sorry about the slow response, I guess I didn't refresh the page properly :shock: I've not seen the form you linked to. On the Free Movement blog they recommend using the relevant sections of this version together with the payment section of the EEA PR: http://webarchive....

hi I'm new to this Forum. I've looked through older posts to see if my question has already been answered but didn't spot it, apologies if it's been covered before. As many others I'm an EU national preparing a permanent residency application. Thanks to this Forum I found out that I can still use th...

Can I ask if you did in the end apply using the old form, and if so if you've heard anything or had a decision yet? I'm very tempted to use the old form as well in order to avoid the pain that is EEA(PR). Thanks