I think I will just phone and ask them what procedure they want me to follow. Just to be safe.

Thanks so much.

My husband's EEA familly permit was going to expire and we sent the passport off to apply for a residence card. We had a holiday booked in Egypt and they had taken over 6 months to do the residency card. Anyway we requested the passport back and came back into the UK with his expired EEA family perm...

Thanks for the replies. Helps a lot. Do you think they will haggle him as we will have to be in a different queue? Also, sorry this is what I meant regarding the 5 year residence card and this is on the uk borders website under permanent residence which we are not aiming for. "Permanent residen...

Hi Guys I was wondering if anyone can help with this. My husband has an EEA family member residence card valid for 5 years in his passport. It is still valid but we have both been out the Uk for just over 2 years. Now I went onto the UK borders website to check if it would be a problem getting back ...