I tend to keep thinking that I must get everything 100% right or they will reject my application for technical reasons. I think I'll enter the date 6 months after my proposed date of entry as I assume that is when the initial EEA FP expires (and by then hopefully the Residence Card will have come t...

I see on the website that Croydon office now offers a limited number of appointments for in-person application for Registration Certificate for EEA nationals at their Croydon office. Since the family members of EEA nationals should be receiving the same rights as EEA nationals, I wonder if they woul...

I am currently in the UK as a visitor (non-visa national) and married to an EEA national (or more precisely, a Surinder Singh case of a UK citizen who has been exercising his treaty rights for years). I arrived with the intention of attending to the house and then leaving to apply for the EEA Family...

Yeah, it's funny cause they had that survey in January, then they put up a notice on the website that they'll be introducinh a fee of £300 for premium in person applications and now it's removed. Smth went wrong as they wouldnt miss an opportunity to make big bucks! Even though many claim it would...

For instance, "intended date of leaving the UK" - if you are applying to live with your EEA spouse permanently in the UK, how can you enter this date? An invalid date? The answer is irrelevant and cannot have any impact on the decision. I tend to keep thinking that I must get everything 1...

Does anyone have any experience of completing that box with 'various countries and various dates' or something to that effect and still having had the visa section properly consider your application? I would rather not spend all day typing up those things if I can help it. My wife applied last mont...

Not answering them is not an option as it does not let you progress to the next page. My understanding is that the applicant has to print the form after the final step. Is that not so? Even if the ECO will see how you have answered the online questions, so what? Eventually the consulate will have t...

I did not want to start a new topic on VAF5 so I apologise if I am adding this question inappropriately. I noticed that there are A LOT of questions on this form (the online version) that perhaps should not even be asked under the EU rules and no other EU country that I have registered in seems to a...

I had a friend (British)....exercising EU treaty rights in Italy then decided to move home with her non-EU spouse....she was told she would hav o apply for a spouse visa under British law....but she sent a complaint....sent the Directive informed the embassy in Rome of her right and was promptly is...

Australia has a much fairer system. It was always points based and never let it self be a target of illegal immigrants. It has respect for the economic migrant - which UK is learning now. But as the PM (un-elect) needs some ratings he and his cronies are squeezing the easiest target - us. No one is...

It's fairly safe to say that when they talk about "probationary citizenship" they do not mean citizenship. Instead they mean a form of temporary residence, albeit one with pathway towards either citizenship or permanent residence. It is poor terminology. If that's what they mean, it is in...

Wanderer wrote:
Hopefully it's gonna be like the German Language test, bloody hard!

I have to admit that I hope it will be at least the equivalent of IELTS 5.0 (and that's not really so hard).

I think this is the point they have missed. They fail to see the theory of comparative advantage from David Ricardo & Torrent. It will be better off for highly skilled migrant holding a highly paid job to work in their field and pay huge amount of taxes rather than doing voluntary work. Plus ma...

Does Romania issue a residence card to a non-EEA citizen who is a spouse of an EEA citizen who is exercising his treaty rights in Romania?

If so, does anyone know how long it takes them to issue it, roughly, please?

Globocentro, I wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that Poland is full of dearly beloved based on 'poor customer service' (if I may call it that) from an immigration officer and rude behaviour from others. It may have had nothing to do with beloved... you might have simply been unlucky enoug...

Thank you very much for your help, Mym and Raina.

I'm trying to find out the process of becoming a resident or a long-term visitor of Hungary or Poland as the spouse of an EU citizen (British). Is there a similar arrangement to the UK EEA Family Permit in Hungary or Poland? I do not really need the work permit - I just need to be able to 'live' the...