I thought that way because the naturalisation application form requires EU nationals (without a PR certification) to provide evidence of exercising treaty rights for 5 years. Since non Eu nationals derive their right of residency from their EU family members, I suspected that by extention the same r...

Your answer has made me confident to apply in March as by then I could have completed six years since marrying an EU national. one issue though, do I need to provide any further evidence of my EU spouse exercising treat rights, resience card, marriage certificate, etc may be under further documents ...

Thanks for this reply and sharing your experience. I will apply in March 2009 to see what happens. I got married in February 2003 when I was on a student visa (since 1999). I hope they will not penalise my absence (between March and October 2003) when I left for for a post-doc research fellowship in...

Thanks for your reply.
I got a 1-year family entry visa in October 2003 and then a residence permit in November 2004 for five years until November 2009. in this case can i apply for naturalsiation in say october 2009 without applying for ILR?

Under the 2006 EEA rules EU nationals and their family acquire permanent residence after 5 years stay in the UK and do not need to apply for it. Does this also apply to their non-EU family members (spouse)? That is, as a non-EU family member of EU national exercising treay rights I dont have to appl...

I am spouse of EU national (Greece). we married in the UK in 02/2003 when we were both students. As my student visa was still valid until end of 2003 i did not apply for family visa. From 03/2003 to 09/2003 i was in Germany for a post-doc fellowship. my wife remained in UK to continue her studies an...