Hi,
I am an Italian citizen doing a PhD in the UK. I am here with my wife, who is Argentine and requested a RC last January, 2014. We received a letter this Saturday, 29th March, refusing to grant her the RC on the grounds that I did not provide proof of CSI.
Since then I have already got in contact with a Health Insurance broker and will receive all the documentation regarding our CSI by the end of the week.
The question we are now facing is what path should we follow.
At the moment of the application, we did not understand that registering at the NHS was not enough proof of health insurance, but obviously claiming lack of knowledge on our side would not provide grounds for an appeal, nor for a reconsideration request. That being said, we would like to know if attaching the documents of our newly acquired health insurance would serve as proof of our will to comply with the norm. If so, under which grounds should the claim be made? Or is it better to entirelly abandon this application and start a new one from scratch?
There is also another detail that we´ve been considering. We arrived at the UK in August, 2013, and settled in Bham in mid-september. Given that we had a private insurance for the first few months, we did not rush into registering with a GP, and only did so on 24th October. Given that all of the Insurance companies I´ve come across so far have requested that I was registered with the NHS for at least 6 months before applying, it would not have been possible for us to have health insurance by the time we made the application (even if we knew about this requisite).
My wife came to the UK with a permit to work that had a 6-month validity, and (as we understood it) she needed to apply for residency before that permit expired. Would it be possible to claim that the requirement to apply for residence within the 6-month validity window is not compatible with the policy of health insurance companies regarding time of registration with the NHS?
Finally, I have just read this post: http://www.immigrationboards.com/eea-ro ... 61020.html , and am interested in knowing more about that possibility...
All in all, the question is if we have any argument to appeal or request a reconsideartion (there seems to be no mistake by UKBA, but it sounds sensible that the decision was reviwed given that we now have a health insurance), or if we should re-apply.
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