As JAJ says, she automatically gets Permanent Residence after 5 years in the country. The Permanent Residence Card is not required, but is an optional way of documenting that status. The Home Office have, by law, at most 6 months to process your application for EEA2. If you applied in September and...

Why did she fill in EEA1, not EEA3, if she had already been in the UK for 5 years? As long as your wife has been "exercising Treaty rights" for 5 years,she became a Permanent Resident automatically on 30 April 2006. She can apply for British citizenship in May this year. Does she want to ...

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. ...