Hi all, My girlfriend is French and I am Australian. We have been living together for 3.5 years (1 year in Australia & 2.5 years in UK). I was initially in the UK on a working holiday visa, we left the Uk for Australia a few months before it was due to expire in March 07. I applied for an EEA Fa...

Hi, We applied for the residence card in March 08 and it still hasn't been granted. My family permit expired in August. I had booked a return trip to go back to Australia (my home country) in September, I got back into the country after a few questions from the immigration officer. I had the relevan...

Hi Darlinfe and all, 1st of all, congratulations on getting the Residence card. I'm in a similar situation. I'm Australian, my unmarried partner of 3 years is French. We applied for an EEA FP while in Australia earlier this year (we were there for a year), this was granted within a week as we had be...

Hi, we were in the same situation. We phoned them on 0870 606 7766. First they told us to fax in a request - which had no effect and id be surprised if they read. We called again and put in a request for our passports over the phone. We both had to put in a request over the phone. The operator input...

Hi all, We are in a different boat, but do have similarities. We applied for EEA2 in March 2008, received acknowledgement letter 4 weeks later. We sent both our passports in with the application. Now, we really want our passports back for various important reasons. We called them 3 weeks ago and wer...

Thanks a lot, I know my questions seem really quite basic and logical, but from what I hear from the home office, it is nothing close to logical. Next question is - Is going back to Australia for a wedding enough for them to send our passports back? We intend to write a letter asking for them back, ...

Hi Directive,

I really appreciate your help. Yes I will have the acknowledgement letter with me, as well as rental agreement in both our names.

My girlfriend will be in the UK when I return to the UK. Is there a way I can prove this?

We definetly do want the passports back.

I am more concerned about the drilling I'll get when coming back into the country with an expired EEA FP and no EEA2 Residence Card and without my girlfriend (EU sponsor).

Will I be let in?

We also received our acknowledgement letter which states that passports should only be asked for in emergencies

Hi all, Thanks a lot for the reply. So coming back into the Uk with an expired EEA FP and no EEA2 Residence Card and without my girlfriend (EU sponsor) what type of questions will I get at immigration? I'll have some evidence that I am coming back to England to live with my girlfriend ie. Rental agr...

Thanks for your replies.

I thought the Residence Card had to be either granted/declined within 6 months?

How long before I travel should I write a letter to the office asking for the passports back?

Thanks again for your advice

I am Australian, my girlfriend/spouse of 3 years is French. We have been living together for 2.5 years. We are currently in the UK, I am here on a EEA Family Permit that expires mid August 2008. I have applied for an EEA2 Residence card (not EEA1), which should have been received by the home office ...

20 documents to prove you live at the same address. I think its 10 docs each per years

My girlfriend, French, and myself Australian went through the same thing, but in Australia and for an EEA family permit. We have now just applied for the Residence Card.

It actually says on the BIA website that you will be able recall your passport for ID or travel purposes. I would phone back and request it again. Thanks for some great advice!!! I'm hoping it has been completed within 6 months. They would have received it on the 31st March 2008. I need to travel b...

When I phoned the home office, they said that it needed to be a very good reason to be able to get the passports back before the decision being decided. They also said that needing it to be able to work is not enough. How can this be? Why would they restrict someone from working? They basically said...

Hi all, My girlfriend (French) and myself (Australian) have been living together for 3 years. While living in Australia I applied for an EEA Family Permit which was granted. We then came to the UK, me arriving on this permit. We have recently mailed off the application for the EEA2 residence Card. W...