If this is the case, would that mean that if i wish to travel with my wife to UK i need to first prove that i exercise treaty rights? First of all, I should have written that answer in a more hypothetical form. In my own case 5 continuous working years were enough, but we cannot generalize, there a...

I worked in UK for almost 8yrs changing jobs occasionally. I quit my job before coming here and left most of my things behind, so its been almost 6 months since i last worked and been to UK. If you worked for 5 consecutive years, you got PR status, even if you didn't get that certified. As far as I...

I am worried and need advise. Is it possible for me to apply for their dependant visa. I heard there are changes in family immigration and hence want to confirm will they get NHS services if i get my parents as my dependants in this country. Please note my parents are below 60 though. Also on my si...

I have been married to my eu national since 2009, we married in my country by proxy and i submitted my passport for endorsement 2010 and was issued 5 yrs visa on may 2011, since then we have been together. Now when do i need to apply for PR. Should i start counting from 2009(marriage year) or from ...

Ans2) My husband didn't apply PR, as it's not necessary. He didn't have a ID card, only passport. On a personal note, I do always invite every EU citizen who is a long term resident in the UK to apply through the EEA3 to get the document certifying permanent residence and to get the citizenship whe...

Note the 'unless' bit. Does that mean I can appeal?? As I can provide a valid EEA passport with no problem! While you can appeal, I would personally follow Plum70's suggestion, and I would first resubmit my application with my EEA spouse's passport or ID card (plus all bank statements and what-else...

Thanks to all again. At the moment I will just gather more supporting documents and we have asked my husband's bank to send us every single bankstatement from 2007 (this is from his salary account). We just want to give HO no reason to refuse my application this time. With my EEA3 application, I se...

I'm not a lawyer, but this is my understanding: Also, in this document, in Italian, you should find most of what you may want to know about the naturalisation process for spouses of Italian citizens: http://www.asgi.it/public/parser_download/save/cittadinanza.a.seguito.di.matrimonio.feb.2012.pdf If...

Plum70 wrote:Aledeniz, for the benefit of LeLe the above links do not seem to be working. You may wish to repost.

Thank you, Plum70, I fixed the links in place, there was a trailing comma in each of them.

Please could you tell me where the law is written? Thanks. My Italian passport application has gone pass 2 years but was told the processing time has changed to 3 years. I'm not a lawyer, but this is my understanding: Art. 3 of http://www.interno.gov.it/mininterno/site/it/sezioni/servizi/legislazio...

For instance the Swiss ask that no enquiries be made within the first two years of application Yes, this is exactly what they told us too. On the other hand, the way the Italian law is written, if a citizen spouse's application is not refused in the first 2 years, they cannot refuse it anymore so a...

2) I don't mind not getting my PR as I should be getting my Italian passport next year. Also, if you are getting Italian citizenship though your spouse, why you don't just send UKBA your spouse's national ID? I did EEA1, EEA2 and EEA3 sending only my national ID, I know a few friends who have done ...

LeLe wrote:2) I don't mind not getting my PR as I should be getting my Italian passport next year

Good luck. My wife applied 28 months ago, and her application is still at stage 1 (did they gave you the code K to follow the application on their web site?).

Today my husband received a phone call from the consulate asking him to provide our family register. ... Does people generally provide it with the supporting documents? ... Any idea about why they want it? With " wedding register " do you mean they asked you to produce the " Livret d...

I'm only asking because that was his problem with just getting uk citizanship, his british mum was not born in the uk so she couldn't pass it to a third gen. This is because the British jus sanguinis is not sticky, actually it is pretty watery. In other countries (Germany, Turkey, Italy), it is the...

If a child is born outside the UK, by a British National, who acquired nationality by residence and not birth), is this child entitle to apply for british passport? As far as I understand, the naturalised parent is British "not by descent" , while the child born abroad after the said natu...

o4ktree wrote:as my wife is a British citizen, I can apply for naturalisation immediately. using the fact that I have lived here for more than 3 years and I am not subject to immigration control.

The above is also my own understanding of the law.

Where did you get the other conjecture from?

I am pretty sure the finger prints are optional for the German passport. They are also only stored in the passport itself, and not in a database. I have read in some countries these were initially optional, but then were made mandatory. I wouldn't put my hand over the fire about it, but I understan...

Here in Germany I had to supply my finger prints to get my residence card. Does that mean the German immigration had done something illegal ? I would think not as this process is widely performed in almost all the EU states now, could they almost be wrong as well? It is a very good question. Last t...

BTW - if you wish not to apply for a passport because of dual nationality issues, then it wont really work as the important date is the registration date and not the passport issue date. Tunay sounds a Turkish name, under the hypothesis that the kid is a Turkish citizen, there shouldn't be issues w...

I looked again at the UKBA website which clearly states that you are a British citizen if at the time of your birth one of your parents was a British citizen; or legally settled in the UK. Yup. Even retroactively: a good friend of mine got a letter from the HO telling he had ILR from an earlier dat...

Luuno wrote:We sadly cant affort a fiancee visa

As you are an EU citizen, I don't understand why you would be interested on a fiancée visa. Are you a dual British-Dutch citizen?

That would certainly be an improvement, but any proposal or suggestion in that direction will almost certainly immediately be vetoed by the UK. Rightly so, if I may say, as long as people who like myself think otherwise don't stand up, get the citizenship they have earnt, and make themselves heard ...

If you live in a country, you use its services, you earn your money there, then you pay taxes there. That is a temporary thing and does not entitle to the privilege of being a permanent, lifelong member of that community. What do you expect, that everybody who works here for a brief period automati...

If that were true, I would hold citizenship of half a dozen countries already. If you live in a country, you use its services, you earn your money there, then you pay taxes there. That is a temporary thing and does not entitle to the privilege of being a permanent, lifelong member of that community...