please read.is it true about reconsideration?

[behold2014]

I re-read the Home Office guidance to caseworkers on reconsideration requests, and hidden away is a part that says that the guidance does not apply to EEA citizens and their family members. I cannot think why that would be so. I cannot imagine that the terms for reconsideration of EEA refusals would be harsher than those for refusals under domestic laws - it's usually the opposite. Many members on this forum have both asked for a reconsideration and appealed at the same time in the past, and had success with it. It's disgusting that Home Office policy is not more transparent. This is all the info I could find about reconsiderations of specifically EEA refusals, and even this was a Freedom of Information request rather than info clearly outlined on the UKVI website.

[toofan]

can you provide any link ?

[behold2014]

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _0_EXT.pdf

[rosebead]

Starting from Page 2 of this guidance:

What this guidance does not cover
This guidance does not apply to:

• entry clearance in any category

• refusal of human rights or asylum applications (including decisions on protection-based claims under article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights)

• European Economic Area (EEA) nationals and their family members

• Bulgarian and Romanian nationals

• nationality decisions

• port decisions

• curtailment decisions

• enforcement decisions

• representations against removal made to a local immigration team

But like I told you before, do not worry yourself over it until the caseworker tells you that you can't have a reconsideration at the same time as an appeal (which HARDLY ever happens by the way). Even then, I think the caseworker would probably be in the wrong, as I can't see what difference it would make if you send in an informal letter (which is what a reconsideration request is) after you submit an appeal or before.