I finally made the move to the UK and traveled into Stansted with my wife who is exercising her treaty rights in London. We weren't able to obtain an EEA FP in time(troubles with marriage cert and finally received it days before our flight) so we figured we would get the EEA Dependent Stamp at the border. We had all of the documentation we thought we would need: passports, marriage certificate, pay slips, etc. At passport control, we told the officer I would be applying for the RC immediately and would be traveling to Italy in a month for her father's birthday. The officer told me to put that I would be staying for 1 month on the landing card and then took our certificate and passports and talked to his supervisor. When he came back he said he was unable to give the stamp because I had spent so much time in the UK over the last year without applying for residence.
The thing is, the last year I've been traveling all over Europe including the UK, I wasn't married to my wife at the time, and I never overstayed my tourist visa. I never used public funds or the NHS and I never worked while traveling in the UK. My wife and I were married in June. He then stamped my passport with this: Leave to enter for/until: September 18th, 2015. That is the day we are leaving to visit her father in Italy. So now I don't have the EEA Dependent stamp and I'm scared that re-entering the UK will be difficult with this September 18th Leave to Remain stamp in my passport. Also will that stamp look bad when applying for my RC?
Please any suggestions would be greatly appreciate. I'm freaking out a bit.
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