Some other long-shots: 1. EHIC card and when it expires does not really matter, as long as you can prove that your wife had health insurance in another EEA country for a specific period. I have used this myself: My EHIC card was expired midway the period that I wanted CSI for, but I could fetch a l...
RCs are optional EEA-related confirmatory documents that (surprise, surprise) merely confirm (but do not confer) status. Useful to show to employers, landlords, border guards and similar. But they are often used as a prerequisite to invoke a certain transitional arrangement (in context of EEA migra...
Hi noajthan - thanks very much for the suggestions. 1) No RC in place at any time - I'll need to read into what they're even for! 2) I'm not aware of any alternative cover to EHIC. a) no RC (how would that be an alternative to EHIC?) b) no cover from overseas family members, that we know of c) ... u...
Hi CR001 - thanks for the quick reply. I fully appreciate the need for DCPR for citizenship - unless, of course, IDLR is an alternative option here, but I don't think it is - admittedly, I know a lot less about non-EEA immigration law. Fuller answers (inc. dates) for your questions are in the post a...
Hi all, Following Brexit, I've been looking to help my wife get citizenship, but most of the 5 year period that we'd like to count towards her EEA(PR) application - which I understand is a necessary precondition to citizenship - was spent as (what is likely to be considered) a student, without compr...
