Hi there, Polish citizenship. I thought my case wasn't straightforward, despite of that got my EEA PR amazingly quickly. I based my application on 5 year employment (including 2x maternity leave; 3 months registered as jobseeker; 3 months abroad when I got unemployed, but got re-employed straight af...

An update - I received the PRC yesterday! A bit of a shock for me, after only 4 weeks and some uncertainties. Thank you for your help noajthan. I am so pleased!

I was told at the post office, they are obliged to refuse Biometrics Enrolment applications if any of the data was incorrect. And that what happened to my son whose 1 letter in his first name got misspelled. A little update here: I finally received a response from the original e-mail address (the on...

Thanks again Noajthan Its just your final period that's a shade of grey. My application is all prepared now and ready to send, however, I would like to know first what you/folks think. If, as in my case, there is a possible risk of PR refusal, would you hold on the application for some uncertain per...

Folks, in case anybody may find this helpful. I also didn't receive any form of reply nor aknowlegement from NationalityBiometrics@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk (my son's first name has been misspelled) despite of writing to them twice. Instead, I got the second Biometrics letter threatening me of refusing ...

If your card was issued to you (and I think it was actually) then you wil have to apply in your own right. And that was exactly what happened. What a tube I am. For such a long time I have been thinking that I can always apply for PR 'using' my paartner/husband in case of any gaps in my employment ...

Right, I think I got it now... my Registration Certificate was not issued on the sponsor's basis, it was the continued 1 year uninterrupted work basis. So I cannot apply on the sponsor's basis, right?

Yes, we were unmarried then, in fact we were both issued with the similar residence certificate ("UK residence documentation for a national of an EEA state"), we were obliged to apply for it after a year of uninterrupted working in UK. We had also both been issued with a registration card ...

Applying for permanent residence Under regulation 8 of the regulations you cannot consider an applicant to be the extended family member of an EEA national until they have been issued either a: • registration certificate, or • residence card. Would that be a blue HO residence documentation? I have ...

Thanks again... feeling so depressed right now. You can't apply as the dependent of your durable partner (for the period you were unmarried) unless you held an EFM RC in partner's name for that time. Without it your PR clock will have stopped. I didn't realise that until you told me. I have always t...

Thank you for your advice noajthan. If I may ask another question - should I try to send the application anyway or scrap it and try to go EEA family member/sponsor route? As I mentioned, my durable partner (we're both EEA) has been employed uninterruptedly since April 2006, we have the evidence of l...

You can't be a jobseeker prior to period of unemployment/non-employment so that end time may be a grey area. In that case my application has been ruined? :( :( I went abroad to see my terminally ill auntie who in fact died shortly after. But I suppose anybody can say so and can't really put that in...

Can it not be included in the same block of time as registering with JC. Lump it together as 'jobseeking'. I never thought about it, you may be right, I am worried though they would say that I delayed the registration (finished employment on 26th Nov 2010 and got registered on 15th Dec) Maternity l...

I see noajthan, thank you so much, I can not afford the PR clock to be stopped even for a couple of days... Looks like I need to scrap the idea of my partner's being a sponsor then. The worse bit I don't have any evidence of looking for a job within these 2 weeks, I was genuinely checking all the lo...

Hi Within my qualifying period of 5 years as a qualified person (worked almost continuously full and part time plus 2 maternity leaves from 2006 to 2011) I found a worrying 2 weeks period of looking for a job by myself only before getting registered with jobcentreplus. Would these 2 weeks disqualifi...

Will do, thanks Noajthan.

To avoid any misunderstandings I sent a detailed cover letter pointing the caseworker to the relevant paragraphs in the EEA regs 2006 and the EU directive 2004/38, you may wish to do the same.

LilyLalilu, could you please tell, how you wrote this cover letter, if it's not too much to ask.

Just to clarify, are you sure it is 180 days absence permitted for exercising treaty right, not 90 days per year? Isn't it 180 for tax purposes? A 100% sure :) It's 6 months a year for PR (or 1x 12 month absence if you have extenuating circumstances). The 90 days is a requirement for the last year ...

This is fine. Make a note that you were abroad during this time and therefore 'not required to exercise treaty rights as you were free from immigration time restrictions'. And as the absence was under the permitted 180 days per year, you were still considered a resident and therefore a qualified pe...

Hi, Unsure how to fill the EEA (PR) form. I have one 2 month gap in employment during my qualifying 5 year period (June 2006 - June 2011); WRS / Registration Certificate / employment evidence present. I didn't register as a job seeker, went to Poland to see relatives. Got employed again after return...