I told them we are in the UK and they suggested contacting the Home Office to apply for leave to remain.

At least if I go to Athens I will have a visa within the week and I can start working again immediately

Thanks for that information. I have just had a call from the British Embassy in Athens that they are overturning our visa refusal.

We now just have to decide if we go back to Athens to get the EEA Family Permit or apply for the residence card.

That is why I have come to this forum for help. I am not a visa expert and have been told different things by different people. We spoke with a company that assists with visas back in October and they didn't mention anything about a form EEA2. Will this enable me to work? Does it matter that we have...

Yes we came to the UK despite the refusal. The job prospects aren't exactly great in Greece and I only have a limited understanding of the language. I am currently here on a 6 month tourist visa. One of the main reasons for our move here is my husband has cystic fibrosis. He is participating in a tr...

Thanks, it has been a frustrating process to say the least! If someone had bothered to contact us when we originally applied we could have provided them with all the evidence they needed within an hour. In hindsight we should have reapplied instead of appealing however we didn't know at the time tha...

Hello, my husband is an Australian with a Greek passport and I am Australian. We applied for an EEA Family Permit in Athens in September 2013. Our application was then sent to Serbia for processing. Two weeks later it was refused on the grounds that we did not prove that our marriage was not one of ...

Hi Dim

I filed an EEA Family Permit application in Greece in September which was then sent to Belgrade for processing. The application was refused and we are now going through the appeal process.

Just wondering how your experience has been with the Belgrade UKBA.

Thanks