yes sorry to everyone reading the post, i labelled the thread wrongly. my post relates to huge problems my wife and i had in moscow attempting to get a schengen visa and gaining free movement rightsunder directive 38/2004, i've written about this issue on many occasions and ran a petition a few year...
So eu 38/2004 has finally been stuffed back into the faces of eu member states with a demand to get their act together - about time. For those that recall a year or two ago the grief I communicated to the board about the treatment meted out by embassy's in Moscow, all I can say is the following memo...
congratulations on your endeavours to navigate the finer details of EEA family permits - one day when you become british citizens maybe you can support the rights of those of us who were from birth UK citizens and sign a petition or two ending the discriminatory practice of UK government not allowin...
actually this confirms some results my investigations this morning and my report back to the SOLVIT department, here's an extract... ...Saturday morning, and I have just spent twenty minutes viewing EU Embassy websites in London - what I have discovered is staggering. The German Embassy indicate a f...
So big topic, affects alot of people, confusing as hell, and causes a load of grief. The following applies to only those of us at or on the top of the food chain - The chain as I see it is as follows; 1) Spouse of an EU citizen of country embassy to which you apply ie: Dutch national at Dutch Embass...
OK Update - petition site http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BritishSpouse/ now has well over 200 signatories and rising, the petition ends in August 07. If you want to get UK government feedback and reply to the petition questions you will need to sign it! Please do so. If or rather when the UK government ...
The first time a week or so, then upped to 30 days - this was a few years ago, since then 12 months ME visas everytime. Given that they have to provide it FOC it makes sense for the Embassies to provide long term visas, remind them of this next time you visit. We have Schengen visas from most EU sta...
The funny thing is- loads of British people (i.e. born and bred Brits) complain about the UK and what do they do? "I'm going to Australia/Canada/NZ/Hong Kong/USA....can't stand it here anymore"...See all the nurses, doctors, teachers, everyone, leaving for 'down under'...why is that? Why ...
Russia, I am not entirely convinced that the reason you are whining about in a forum has anything to do with the explanation Wanderer gave. There is an apparent difference between the posts made by a bitter person who feels terrible that a law abiding couple was successful in their Immigration appl...
[quote= I am pleased that you are both trying to understand and follow the rules. I wish you well in the long process that you will both follow.[/quote] OK, dont get me wrong, I too am happy to a certain extent that at least this individual is following the rules, and yes JAJ understood - but please...
Hi all. I have read some discussions here and you guys are doing a great job. Its not cheap what you are offering for free here. Anyways, I am non EEA citizen (from india.) Came to UK on 10th of september 2004 on a two and a half year student visa. I was living with my girl friend since april 2005....
POSITIVE DIRECT ACTION - Shame them, start a petition, make a noise, bang a drum, anything but just do something. We are the easiest of targets, we're a fragmented group of individuals fighting our own private battles - time to get organised[/b]. How can we get organized when we have no unity :?: o...
The ECO assessing my husbands application ignored all evidence of relationship and insisted we would not live together. I challenged both refusals with ukvisas and got nowhere. I now have to wait. The ECO has till 24th May to submit bundle, our first child is due on 26th May. I applied to AIT to ha...
The ECO could not have read it. My self-employed status became "unemployed" despite all bank and income records, doubt as to frequency of contact was made despite copious original phone records showing time/date/duration and number called three times a day *every* day, emails, text messag...
The ECO could not have read it. My self-employed status became "unemployed" despite all bank and income records, doubt as to frequency of contact was made despite copious original phone records showing time/date/duration and number called three times a day *every* day, emails, text messag...
goldilocks, I'm probably amongst the more forthright on this board (rude, in some people's view, but nevertheless), unless you get on the phone to the Embassy and make it known in no uncertain terms what a shower they are and tell them that you will submit a complaint and appeal claiming damages etc...
All very true Directive/2004/38/EC, but at this point in time we have no idea whether the OP is a citizen of an A2 country ... Bulgaria and Romania ... or an A8 national .... or indeed a citizen of one of the older countries of the EEA. Giedrys, can you post that information please ... you are a ci...
if you did nothing more than omit some information then go ahead and get a solicitor, if however, you lied, then frankly you havent a chance and rightly so - imho. there are many other ways of cracking the shoddy immigration system of the UK - lying is just the dumbest way of doing it. why not inste...
this is very useful information, so you are saying there are guidelines and the qualifying criteria is laid out for ECO reference, but just what the content of those criteria are is subject to secrecy laws - this is staggering... ...I thought it was more a case of thumb in the air, how much do we ne...
quote] And thanks for the link with the VAF1 form.. I had no idea what it was for and was really dying to see what one looks like.[/quote] Thats because you live in Stoke on Trent and have probably never been further from your armchair than Rhodes on holiday. You miss the point here...ECO's are a vi...
Yes SILLY YOU... A VAF1 non-settlement visit visa application currently 85 pounds will be increasing to 200 pounds from April. Although you can ask for a 10yr valid visa there's no guarantee you will get it. Sort your facts out first before commenting. http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/6353/6356/1771...
An ECO uses his/her own discretion about visa validity it could be 6 months it could be 10 years - trouble is no-one knows how they decide what term to give you. In practice this could mean 20 applications for 6 monthly visas over ten-years and at 200 each that's 4000 pounds....! Go ask your MP or y...
