In case anyone is following this thread: My wife finally received her EEA permit. Processing time was 18 working days. 4th April - Submitted app at Dusseldorf 3rd May - Status changed to "Ready for pickup by courier" 4th May - Received the passport with the permit The vacation season in th...
drkstr, This is a big relief! Thanks for the update. Since we applied exactly a week after you did, I can expect something by end of next week. Did you get your documents today already? If yes, then that would mean that the status on the website did not really reflect the actually status, right? Tha...
I already called up the UKBA hotline here and they said they couldn't help me in anyway. They asked me to contact World Bridge and those guys say that they cannot state anything about how much time it would take for the application to be processed (after having charged $14 for a call). But the proce...
drkstr, We are facing a similar problem with the long processing time. I am a German national and my wife is non-EU. We already got the EEA family permit in Sep'2010 and moved to the UK. Back then it took just about 4 working days to get the passport back. In the UK, we didn't apply for the residenc...
