Dear all, I just wanted to post a bit of a success story regarding the processing time for an EEA4 application. After an initial application was returned with a request for further supporting information (it was returned within a week of sending), a further EEA4 for my Brazilian girlfriend and her m...

Thanks very much for your helpful responses. The casework instructions contain lots of useful info, however when most relationships end (divorce, leaves country, even death) there will be documentary evidence, but not in our case. As such, retention of the right of residence is not really applicable...

Does anybody have any advice on this?

Our solicitor is investigating whether she can apply for PR in her own right as a person who has been working for 5 years.

Does anyone have any experience of this or know if it is even possible?

Hi there, I am looking for some advice on my girlfriend's application for Permanent Residency under EEA4. She is 23, a Brazilian national who arrived in this country in April 2004 with her Brazilian mother and Portuguese step father. She received her family residence card in September of 2004 and it...