Hello
I am a New Zealand citizen and I currently live in New Zealand with my girlfriend who've I sponsored for NZ residency as my defacto partner. We wish to move back to the UK. She has dual UK and Greek citizenship. Her family including parents live in Greece. She has been living in NZ for over 2 years now and has only been back to Europe for a couple of months each year.
Here is where my question gets tricky. I know that the UK changed its rules on the EEA and Surinder Singh so that the applicant must work for at least a year (previously 3-6 months). In addition they must show that the European country is their extended centre for living, by joining clubs, integrating into the community etc.
However my partner is permanently integrated, with ties of family, language, property ownership, and friends.
Question 1: does she still have to demonstrate the 1 year work period in addition to the obvious existing integration? (the aspects of seem to be separate as criteria in the Surinder Singh terms)
Question 2: Could any income from property rental in Greece be seen as self employment earnings and could that included as part of the one year period (if she must still account for that time) despite her being in NZ during that period?
Question 3: Can the partner (i.e. Me) still enter the UK and work whilst applying for a UK residency card using form EEA2. Or has that now changed from what I've seen elsewhere online.
Sorry if they seem like dumb questions, however I haven't seen examples of Surinder Singh being applied to dual citizenship.
Many thanks
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