mmalinconia wrote:Hi Nanouk! contratulations for your RC!! now you can sleep peacefully for 5 years...
Could you tell us more about self-sufficient application? how did you prove self-sufficiency? and how to they evaluate how much savings do you need to be self-sufficient?
nanouk wrote:Hi guys!
I got the RC!!!!!!.. well, the letter that it will arrive in 10 working days (
insert victory dance here
). Haven't got my full timeline here, but I'll write what I remember...
- I applied on April 17th
- Never got my COA, so I called HO and they send it on June 2
- Requested the passports back
- HO only send my wife's passport
- Called them, told me to wait 10 working days
- After 10 working days called again and they realized the mistake and were going to send mine
- Received mine...
- Got a job using my COA with right to work
- Employer checked the link in the COA and received the right to work, so everything was ok
- 16 of September received all of my ORIGINAL paperwork (not the photocopies) with the residence certificate for my wife and a letter that my card will arrive in 10 working days since 11 of September
Wife German, I'm Chilean
EEA applied as self sufficient
We sent 1.3kg of paperwork
We filled everything ourselves, no need for solicitors really
Marrier for little over a year when we applied
no interviews, phone calls, nothing
Any questions i'll be happy to help!
hi, thank you...
We never found out how much money we needed to prove, so we did the following:
Since I came last September to do a MSc in London, I had to apply for a tier4 student visa, showing I had funds to pay for the course and everything...
I sent August 2014 Chilean bank statements in Chilean pesos, with the translation
I sent 3 months of bank statements in the basic account I have here
I also sent 1 month bank statements from my wife (the EU) with money in our Chilean account.
Most of the money was in my account (student, tier4, non-EU), so I wrote an additional letter explaining that we were married and we had both our money in the non-EU partner account, but the EU trying to demonstrate self-sufficient status was using that account as well..
But honestly, never figured out how much money we needed to prove...
Ah.. also..
I have the Chilean passport and my wife has both german and Chilean passport... the wedding certificate was done using the Chilean ID, and we sent that with the translation as well..