My wife is a Finn working for a UK business and I am a Canadian working for a UK business. I started working for the UK business first through a work permit and then I later obtained an EEA2 residence card as my wife is exercising her EU rights in the UK. I now enter the UK on the EEA2 residence car...

I had asked the same question regarding what to do about expired passports containing Residence Cards stamps to IND Public Enquiries at INDpublicenquiries@ind.homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk This was the exact reply of the Border & Immigration Agency: If you have retained your old passport, you need not t...

AlexS
Very good and very helpful--thanks for your input! Six months seems to be the norm for EEA2 applications.
Thank you again
Carlitos

Just writing to anyone out there who has submitted an EEA1 and EEA2 application together (same envelope by post) to Croydon.

Did this result in faster processing for the EEA2 Residence Card?

AlexS,

Thanks for that info, I did see that and wonder how I would submit two applications at once (same envelope?).

How long did it take you to get your Residence Card in your passport? I assume since you did not have your passport your could not leave the UK for that time?

Carlitos

Docterror, You know your stuff when it comes to things UK-immigration related. In making an EEA2 application as a non-EEA spouse of an EEA national, does the Home Office hold onto the passports of both the EEA spouse and non-EEA spouse until the process in completed in six months and non-EEA spouse'...

I am in the process of submitting an EEA2 application for a Residence Card. I am a Canadian citizen in London, UK currently employed through a Work Permit; my spouse is a Finnish citizen exercising her Treaty Rights and has applied and received the "Registration Certificate" via the EEA1. ...