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Hi dantam!dantam wrote:Hi everyone,
Based on your experience and information when is the ideal time to request the passports back, after enrolling biometrics or after receiving the CoA?
Can both, EEA Family member and EEA National passports be requested or just the EEA national?
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks
Hi PeatDPeatD wrote:hi everyone, I'm stil waiting on my RC approval, timeline as below. But i am now moving house in the next week. I was planning to set up a mail redirection via Royal Mail, but I've just read that this does not cover courier deliveries. And reading through the forums it seems that DX is the main courier that they use to deliver the RC (if approved, i guess).
Can anyone please advise what to do, or what other delivery carriers they encountered when recieving their approval and documents back? I imagine that i also need to notify home office of the change, but not sure how to do this and scared it will delay things even further. Can anyone share their experience and advice please?
many thanks in advance.
EEA_EFM Application sent: 20/02/16 (as unmarried partner of EEA national)
Payment deducted: 26/02/16
Biometric letter received: 03/04/16
Biometric enrolment completed: 05/04/16
Requested passport & ID back: 05/04/16
Received passport & ID back: 25/04/16
Requested COA: 01/06/16
COA received: 03/06/16 (but dated 18/03/16 with no right to work
Residence card: ???
Ahhhh thank you so much for letting me know this @amanda505!! Im setting up my royal mail redirect NOW!!!! OMG im just so tense and nervous at the moemnt, as all my old house mates have been evicted from the old house too, so theres not even anyone there to check the post anymoreamanda505 wrote:Hi PeatD
The Home Office uses DX to deliver the RC and Royal Mail to deliver your documents (they will arrive separately). I changed address around 3 months before receiving my RC, and filled the change of address form. In the end they actually sent my RC and documents to the new address, it didn't delay the process at all. But since in your case you have already completed 6 months waiting and your RC will arrive any minute now it might be a bit more tricky...have you tried calling the Home Office and asking for an update? Good luck!
Hey @geeb33 - you should definitely apply for your documents back asap. TBH I'm not sure you'll get it back in time now - its supposed to take 10 working days, but mine took about 20 days after re-requesting it. There is someone on this forum who mentioned they were able to request it back for emergency reasons, so ended up getting theirs back relatively quickly. But I couldn't work out how they did it - the people on the helpline aren't super helpful, unless you get lucky and find someone with a some sort of empathy, who then tells you what you need to know. If you get anyone rude or unhelpful, just ring back and try and speak to someone else.geeb33 wrote:Hi everyone,
Been stalking this forum for a long time thanks to everyone who posts, so helpful.
I applied for EEA EFM on March 3rd so nearly at the six month mark but haven't heard back yet. I've got a holiday booked to leave on September 7th and am getting nervous I won't have my passport back in time (pushing it I know, it's with my partners family and I didn't choose the dates). I phoned up the HO and they said I can request my docs back online but judging by what I've read here it takes ages.
Do you think I should apply to have my docs back now, will this maybe hurry them up with my application or will doing that make it take longer do you think?
Any advice appreciated, quite stressed now!