Everything was held up by 7 months as they did checks on our marriage certificate and her son's birth certificate (who lives with us and is also applying). They sent these back to Vietnam to perform the checks, where my wife and stepson are from. We went to great lengths to get stamps on these docum...

I am a British citizen living in Germany with my non-EEA spouse. We moved to Germany for my job. She applied for a German residence card in May 2014, within 3 months of moving to Germany with me. We gave them all the necessary documents (marriage certificate, etc), but they have only this week retur...

Update: The advice from Mrs.mdeben was spot on, it appears. We applied for EEA Family Permits 2 weeks ago from Berlin, and got them today in the post. Despite the very confusing website, no appointment fee was required. All entries in the application form to do with income, wealth, intended duration...

How easy it is to get into the "host" country (Cyprus) depends on the country (ask their embassy in your country), but you can at least use EU Directive 2004/38, in which case: 1. It helps if your husband has a job offer letter for a job in the host country; 2. You should either be joining...

That's reassuring, thanks.

You've had a complicated story, and I'm so pleased for you that it worked out in the end.

So I decided to go for another EEA Family Permit. I've booked an appointment for Berlin tpcontact. But it's very confusing about whether I need to pay a 59 GBP appointment fee. The poorly designed online application form tells me a few times that I must pay this fee to tpcontact, but at the end of t...

Hi people, please if anyone can help with my questions I would be most grateful. I need to decide pretty sharpish if we go for Family Visitor Visas or EEA Family Permits. I had absolutely no idea until last week that the Surinder Singh route had been made more difficult; applying for Family Visitor ...

Hi Mrs.mdeben, Thanks for the encouragement. Can I ask, how did you get to the UK the first time, was it on a Family Permit too? And what type of residence permit did you have in Cyprus? What concerns me about our case is that we have only resided in Germany for 4.5 months when we make the applicati...

Whilst in the UK we didn't apply for residence permits because after a few weeks we visited family in Vietnam for over a month, and then there was prospect of getting this job in Germany and we knew about the 4-month-or-so waiting time for residence permits.

I am a UK citizen who successfully used the Surinder Singh route via the Netherlands (not the easiest route!) to bring my non-EEA wife and stepson to the UK in December 2013. (And many thanks to the gurus on this website for advising me all along the way.) We lived in the Netherlands for 5 months re...

I tried and its the same, page cannot be found. You can use the vaf5 paper application and submit. How do you know that a paper application is ok? Anyway, I managed to get through to the online form. I think the problem was that I was using wifi from a couple of locations that were not accepted by ...

ice_breaker wrote:Have you tried using different browser?

No, but it's a 404 error, which means the webpage doesn't exist. But could someone else please try the link themselves, just to check?

What evidence do you have that you have been working in the Netherlands? Contract of employment for 3 months with a university. 3 pay slips. BSN numbers for me and my family. Rental contract. I also have a Dutch bank account, but it is not a joint account because my wife's BSN numbers took 2 months...

Why are you applying for an EEA Family Permit? I thought you and your wife were already in the UK? No, we're still in the Netherlands. I was hanging on to get Dutch residence cards, but after the disappointment on Friday (not recognising our marriage certificate) I thought I might as well take the ...

I am a UK citizen and am applying for EEA Family Permits for my family to enter the UK under the Surinder Singh route. We are applying from Holland, where we have been living. I have been trying to fill in the new online application form for an EEA Family Permit from the Netherlends (Applying for a ...

Yes she has - to get into the Netherlands originally, on a temporary Schengen visa, under Directive 2004/38/EC. And yes she showed our marriage certificate. I pointed this out to them yesterday, but they did not accept this. They must be wrong about this, surely. Not doing non-schengen travel is a v...

So I went to the IND today, and the result was not good. I took all the documentation, passports, etc, as you advised. But we fell at the first hurdle. Apparently the stickers in the passports are not the normal stickers. Well they are, but there's a bit of writing on them, which was never explained...

Here's an update on our situation, and a question. All along we were told by the IND that our application for verification against EU law (and issuance of residence cards) would take 3 months, and my non-EEA wife and stepson were given visa stickers in their passports with 3 month validity. In the t...

So are you saying that the reason that they should not be placing requirements about "sufficient resources" is that I worked for 3 months?

Also, what is the procedure for complaint?

Sooooo, just to be sure, we can go in UK together, after we apply for EEA family permit for him? I want to be sure, to don't have problems in the airport. :D He should apply for a Family Permit *before* he comes to the UK. This application can be made at any UK Consulate. So this can be done from t...

@Graham: I am in Holland. I am also British and occasionally travel between the countries, unlike my family who have to wait for the EEA Family Permits. @fysicus: I don't know whether I need to send it by courier. That is my question. Courier is what I was told I had to do when I rang up the wonderf...

@graham: Yes, I now know that. It's the excessive 175 euro (for two people) courier fee I'm trying to avoid. On calling WorldBridge they made it sound unavoidable, but it sounds like I can just take it to Croydon myself. Does anyone know if I can and if I can collect it myself too?

@chaoclive, Thanks for that link, I've sent off an enquiry. @Jambo, Thanks for the link. It looks like I have the choice of carrying the envelope to Croydon myself. I'm planning on popping back to the UK for a few days on my own about that time anyway. I wonder whether they would give me the option ...

Amsterdam at the mobile eugenics unit. It's perfect in its horribleness, isn't it? The British authorities have divested themselves of direct involvement, by contracting out the arrangement. You're left dealing with a company that can only slope its shoulders and say "well, this is what we are ...

The British Embassy phone line directs me to the phone number of WorldBridge! They also give a website for advice, which is ... wait for it ... the WorldBridge website!!