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Thanks good luck for u tooJulian11 wrote:Fantastic! Congrats.
libbi11 wrote:Hi,
I got my approval yesterday, finally after 9 months!! I'm EEA, 7 years continuous work, never applied for PR card. Agony is over now!
Good luck to the rest of you and thanks for everything! Great forum, helpful with lovely ppl!!
madzik1016 wrote:I get letter today My application was approved!! I'm so relief !
Date of application 18th june, got letter dated 8th of Feb and got it today! I'm sure they got overtimes in HO as this was sunday. Good luck everyone! Pozdrowienia Trzymam kciuki za was
rachsach wrote:Eligibility criteria: 5+ Exercising Treaty Rights and Married to British Citizen ( EEA/EU National )
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test): Esol B1 test
Current nationality: Spanish
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Northumberland County Council
Date of application: 17/07/2014
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: Credit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 18/07/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 02/08/2014. ( Dated 29/07/2014 )
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 29/07/2014
Date approval received: 12/02/2015
Date of ceremony:18/02/2015
Final Update from me.
EEA/EU citizen exercising treaty rights for over 20 years but with NO PR card.
I wish the best of luck to everyone remaining and hope you all get to hear from HO soon.
Best Regards
Anoolka wrote:I can't believe it!!! I have just got it!!! There it was, the glorious brown envelope.
So here is my timeline:
EEA 6 years, no PR
Applied: 13 Sept 2014
Acknowledged: 26 September
Approved: 12/02/2015 (letter dated 08/02/2015)
Ceremony: will book tomorrow
Thank you guys for sharing the info and pain:) All the best.
Julian11 wrote:As I posted in another thread, I was declined, for supposedly not exercising treaty rights for 5 years. It wasn't more specific than that so I don't know where they found an issue. Absolutely gutted.
Oh men really sorry to hear that. U were dead excited about is getting approvals and you couldn't wait for your good news. Really feel for youJulian11 wrote:I had a mix of studies, work, and self sufficiency, all since 2009, which I proved with all the relevant docs (and the NCS was fine with it all): work documents/P60s/HMRC documents for work, the relevant degree documents for studies, and certified bank statements for self sufficiency.
For a short while, I worked abroad but I came back every weekend (and I sent proof of all of these flights) and when you add up the days gone, it does not even come close to ever hitting six months in any residency year (if you hit 6 months away in a residency year, you break your treaty rights).
So I really don't know what they disliked.
Well Julian I see a couple of potential problems here. Firstly if you came in 2009, you can only apply for naturalisation in 2015. You acquire PR status after exercising EEA rights for 5 years, but you can only apply for naturalisation AFTER you have had the PR status for 1 year. So that means that you need to be exercising your rights for 6 years and not 5. Secondly if you were working abroad, even if you were coming to the UK every weekend, you could have easily exceeded the number of days that you are allowed out of UK in the last year (which is 90 days allowed out in the last 12 months before applying).Julian11 wrote:I had a mix of studies, work, and self sufficiency, all since 2009, which I proved with all the relevant docs (and the NCS was fine with it all): work documents/P60s/HMRC documents for work, the relevant degree documents for studies, and certified bank statements for self sufficiency.
For a short while, I worked abroad but I came back every weekend (and I sent proof of all of these flights) and when you add up the days gone, it does not even come close to ever hitting six months in any residency year (if you hit 6 months away in a residency year, you break your treaty rights).
So I really don't know what they disliked.
Hi JulianJulian11 wrote:I am married to a British citizen so no worries there - only 5 years needed. I did wonder, however, if they might have missed that and that is why I got declined, however their reason says I didn't exercise treaty rights for a continuous five years...if it was something to do with having PR for a year, I'd have thought they'd have mentioned that specifically.
I provided a document listing the total number of days I was absent -- it was about 1/5 of the limit that breaks your exercising of treaty rights (6 months), so well within the limit. All within the normal residency limits too (for marriage). It was only a few months and I was in the UK for 3 days each week (sometimes more with holiday days), so the number of days absent was actually quite small in the end as a result. Same for all other years where it was just holidays, nothing long. The work thing was in year 3 or so so didn't affect the 90 day requirement in the last year either. So I am really clueless!