Have a look here.https://www.freemovement.org.uk/online-eea-permanent-residence-european-passport-return-service-now-available/ Worth having a pen and paper while listening to the video.It might be easier using eea3 form which caseworkers have to accept. If you need your passport bAck,you can do a g...

Does attendance at that course have to be declared

I had a look on Colin Yeo's blog at freemovement.org.uk He is a leading immigration barrister and has produced a video showing how to complete the new online application form. He says with that one that you need to list all UK absences and with the paper one 5 years. I also read on another website t...

I have been exercising treaty rights since the eighties.Each year since arriving in the UK, I have had one two or three holidays and sometimes none per year.Each holiday has been to a different place and at a different time.I can remember absences for the last six or seven years but beyond that no. ...

If you are able to prove that you were exercising treaty rights over the last five years but that prior to then you were not exercising those righs by way of not having CSI.Is the Home Office still able to issue a removal order against you.My research indicates that the HO takes harsh view on those ...

Its very binary, meet requirements in an appropriate qualifying period and pass.
Fail to meet requirements or fail to submit adequate supporting evidence: refusal.

Thank you ,Your quick and helpful answers have been much appreciated

I exercised treaty rights from 1990 until about 2006 with about 2 years overseas after that, so my residency may have been ended.I then returned to the UK for 18 months without working and started working again without a further break from 2009.My documentation before 2009 is quite limited. So (if ...

Thanks,Noajthan,I have had broken residences and returned to UK in 2008 and I was self sufficient for about 18 months but without CSI.Will that present a problem. If applying in own right then being self-sufficient but without CSI does not make you a selfsufficient qualified person in the context o...

Noajthan,I think that I have made the same mistake in my application for PR and listed the previous five years and not the time when I first entered the UK.Can you please advise what action I should take. Hmm, do you have a lot of absences/ prolonged absence/s? You need to be able to show you have ...

Thank you - it is rather difficult to remember where and when I went on holiday back home or for just few days in the last 5 years! unfortunately there is no record of it in my passport... poor me! Not just 5 years but since you arrived in UK. Simply state month/year if you cannot remember specific...

Why did you feel the need to include a letter of support from your MP? Are you concerned that you may not qualify for PR? I was told by the HO helpline that if I did not pay tax,I would not qualify for the card.My earnings for the last six years have been consistently above the Primary Earnings Thr...

I made an application on the basis of being a single Spanish resident for PR.My MP enclosed a letter with the application mentioning that I had a partner.I phoned the HO helpline and they told me that applying as a single person would be fine even though I had a partner.Should I send a covering lett...