And another thing that is not completely clear - the appeal must be within 14 days of the Home Office decision, but if the decision date (presumably date at the bottom of the refusal letter) was, say, on a Thursday, does this mean the last day to make an appeal is two weeks later on a Thursday, or t...
Thanks. I decided to make an appeal. It is not at all clear from the Home Office refusal letter or the on-line application form whether or not we need to make two appeals (one for my wife, one for my stepson) or one. We received one refusal letter, which refers to both people, and it's all dependent...
Does anyone know whether an appeal (which I have 9 days to make a decision about and prepare for) could take into account information that was not supplied with the original application (i.e. that I started working in the UK soon after arriving back from Germany)? And what about the fact that we hav...
Thinking about this a bit more, I just don't get this. Surely, having a EEA Family Permit is confirmation from the Home Office that we are legally entitled to enter the UK to live together indefinitely, and that is what we did and are continuing to do, and so legally surely that is the end of the ma...
Hi Obie, Yes - I'm sure the rules must be in contravention of the law, and this is reassuring to know in the event of them trying to force my family out of the country. But the point is that I would very much prefer not to go through a long and protracted court battle if that can possibly be avoided...
Thanks for the detailed answers. So there is an advantage in appealing in that we would then be in legal limbo, rather than in a situation where we accepted that we had no right to be in the UK. But overall, this sounds like it is a very bad situation for us. It sounds like my family, under current ...
So, Richard W, would I be correct in summarising what you are saying as this: Even though my family legally entered the UK to live with me in March 2015, under what was then Home Office rules for the Surinder Singh route, and even though they have lived with me in the UK since that date more or less...
By "qualified person" since my return to the UK, do you mean whether I satisfy one of a handful of criteria (one of which is being a "worker", and another of which is being "self-employed")? I am employed by my own consultancy company, and have performed much consultanc...
I'm having difficulty in interpreting in concrete terms the implications of what you are saying. Which of the following are you saying applies to my case? A) Even though my family legally entered the UK in March 2015, the right of my family to live with me in the UK has now rescinded as of Nov 2016;...
I'm a British citizen with a Vietnamese wife and child stepson. We successfully entered the UK under EEA Family Permits in December 2013, having lived in Holland for 5 months. After about two months in the UK, we then moved to Germany so that I could take up a new job. I lost the job after 6 months,...
Hi Casa, when you say Surinder Singh refusal, do you mean our refusal last year for a residency card, or do you mean a refusal after Brexit has completed in March 2019 (or whenever it is)?
So we would stay in the UK and submit our application for the 5-year route, which would in the end involve a total of 3 applications over the 5 years, in order to attain permanent residency?
It's not at all clear to me that the paragraphs you quote apply to our case. There are these 2-year, 5-year and 10-year routes, explained in large technical documents. What route would we be taking?
So my question is: what are the current rules for applying for a spousal visa if currently in the UK through Surinder Singh? Do we have to leave the country to make the application?
Follow up question about this German translation: So it is not necessary to every last little detail translated, e.g. every page of a lengthy rental contract. What about 10 pages of salary slips? It is obvious from these that they are going from the company for which I have the work contract to my G...
Your answer only really answers Q1. The documents for EEA(FM) and EEA(PR) are the same in this respect (which is useful to know). But that means they are equally unclear. I am asking what is meant by "qualified professional translator", and just referring back to the same document that I w...
Having entered the UK with EEA Family Permits under the Surinder Singh route, my wife and stepson will soon be applying for EEA(FM) residency cards to confirm their status in the UK. They have obtained EEA Family Permits on numerous occasions in the past, originally in December 2013 and most recentl...
We've actually had 4 applications for EEA Family Permits, all of which were successful. Our story is that my wife and stepson came to the UK for 5 months in 2011 under a spousal visitor visa, left the country but got refused further visitor visas. I got a job in the Netherlands where we lived for 5 ...
2) I see, so assuming no "other reasons" (on page 32 of Processes and Procedures) because there is nothing particularly suspicious or unusual about my application, the question is whether evidence of my nationality can be considered to have been "already seen". Surely this is som...
