Do someone needs to be at home to receive passport? Special delivery has to be signed for, otherwise it is returned to your local post office mail centre. If this happens you will have to go there with some ID to collect it, and you should bear in mind that they only hold it for a couple of weeks b...

I'm no expert on this subject, in fact I knew pretty much nothing until a few weeks ago, I just submitted my EEA(PR) application 2 days ago. From what you have written it looks like you should be OK. Have you held comprehensive sickness insurance for the entire time you have been in education? This ...

What have you been doing since you arrived in 2009? Working, student etc? As an EEA citizen you will automatically acquire permanent residence after 5 years of exercising treaty rights, for example if you are working. You must have held PR for 12 months before applying for naturalisation. You don't ...

My mistake, there is no use of the word immediate. The legislation says: 18. (1) The Secretary of State must issue an EEA national with a permanent right of residence under regulation 15 with a document certifying permanent residence as soon as possible after an application for such a document and p...

Anyone applied as EEA qualified person for document certifying PR? How long did it take? EU law says they must issue it immediately, I just wanted to get an idea of what the Home Office's interpretation of immediate actually is.

I've had 3 of these private parking company "parking charge notice" which as you mentioned hold no legal basis unlike a council issued penalty charge notice. Two of them I ignored and after a few threatening letters, they left me alone. The third one I appealed, which was promptly rejected...

Hi, I asked the same question a couple of days ago. Are you applying a PR card, or confirmation that you already have PR? Home Office guidance says they aim to process PR card applications within 6 months (looking on this forum it normally takes around 5). For a document confirming that you already ...

Double post - just read "Processes and procedures for EEA documentation applications" and it actually says that when an EEA qualified person applies for a document certifying permanent residence, it must be provided immediately upon receipt of the application and sufficient evidence. The 6...

I'll send it recorded, and use the date it was signed for on

Just got my whole bundle of everything into the envelope, it just about fits. The start of an exciting but no doubt very long adventure!

Thanks, I was not aware there was such a service but I have found the online form now. For date of application, would I just put the date that they received it?

I'm just about to send off my application for a document certifying permanent residence. I am sending my EEA passport, which expires in August 2016, and that I can only renew at the Embassy in London. I am also likely changing jobs very soon, within the next few weeks, and will need the passport as ...

I hope I can pass it, seeing as I might need to

provide residence and treaty right evidence as well as absence information for this period. This is all which is legally required to obtain PR as far as I am aware. Is this correct? On the form it states if you are applying on the basis of being an EEA national exercising treaty rights for 5 years,...

The guidance for Form NS says:

If the evidence is in the form of your, and a parent’s birth certificate you should consider applying for a British passport. Only if you do not have documentation acceptable to the passport authorities should you apply for confirmation of nationality status.

Ah yes the old Form NS, I have seen that, and I'm hoping I don't have to do one because the nice lady at UKVI told me it can take up to 6 months. It also costs £162. I was talking to a very helpful lady at the local register office about the whole situation while I was there to sort something else o...

I won't need to apply for citizenship if I am a citizen

I should be able to go straight ahead and apply for a passport.

Just thought I'd update people on this. In what is arguably a massive plot twist, I've done some digging over the last 24 hours and discovered that my mother's father is in fact NOT the British man who raised her, but an unknown Swedish man who disappeared the day she was born. My grandfather assure...

Hm OK, great idea. I will write a covering letter to the same effect. I am going to send 7 years of P60's (I know only 6 are required) for good measure.

Thanks again for your help, I'm keen to find out how you get on and will let you know likewise.

Thanks for the reply alvarez, it's nice to know there are others in the same boat! What did you end up doing for section 9, did you fill in the educational history bit or leave it blank and explain in the further information box / covering letter?

OK can anyone tell me if this is acceptable? I have included the details of my vocational training in the 2005-2008 period, and also the details of my self sufficiency during this same period (mainly part time job). I have left the section about CSI blank, and in the "further information about ...

It's a generic form that applies to many people in all sort of circumstances. Yes fill in relevant parts of Section 9. Namely: Q9.4 Summary but noting: For any period in which you were/your sponsor was not a qualified person, or if you wish to give any further information, give details at 9.13 Fill...

OK. I am massively confused now. This is so overly complex that I know I'm going to mess it up somehow and waste £2000. I wish it were a case of just filling in a simple form. Do I still need to complete the sections of the PR application form which detail vocational training, financial resources etc?

Thanks, but in the PR document application form (EEA_PR_07-15) it asks which type of application you are making. I have selected: I’ve lived in the UK for a continuous period of five years as an EEA national qualified person, the family member or extended family member of a qualified person, or a co...

Hello all, I posted here a few years ago about applying for naturalisation as a British citizen. My situation is fairly complex but I seem to have figured it all out except I have hit a roadblock - CSI. A little background, as more information has come to light since I last posted. I am a Finnish ci...

Hi, thanks for the reply. I started working part time in June 2007 and finished college in June 2008. I was mistaken about my age - I was 18 when I started working but 19 when I finished college. I have not done the Life in the UK test, however, having lived here for 21 years what are the chances I ...