Thank you for this thread, I reckon it will be very helpful to many people. As a small aside here, if you had a BR1 (recognising you as a student) ISSUED before June 2011, you are entitled to an exemption which means you do not have to provide CSI evidence at all. I did quite a bit of research to end up with the text below and I did get my residence card (Bulgarian again) without any CSI evidence, so presumably they found it acceptable. Enter the following into the big text box at the end of I think section 9 of the EEA(PR) form, making sure to change all personal details and dates as appropriate:
This concerns Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (hereafter "CSI")
evidence usually required for this application. I fall under
what's known as "transitional arrangements" and do not need to provide
evidence of CSI. Reference [1] says
"Transitional arrangements are being introduced, so that an application
for permanent residence as a student will not be refused solely on the
grounds that there is no evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance on
the date of decision where UKBA issued a registration certificate to the
applicant on the basis of their residence in the UK as a student before
20th June 2011."
I was issued a BR1 Yellow Student Registration Certificate in April
2011 (attached to this application is the Home Office approval letter,
ref XXXXXXXX). This BR1 certificate was kept by Home Office when I
applied for a BR2 Blue certificate, granted in March 2013 (both BR2
cert. and approval letter are attached). I trust this is conclusive
evidence that I was issued a registration certificate on the basis of
being a student in the UK before June 2011 and therefore I do not need
to provide evidence of CSI with this application.
See Reference [2] for very similar wording explaining transitional
arrangements (though without using the phrase).
[1] Section F, paragraph 13 from document "Notice 07 11 Comprehensive sickness insurance revised and reissued.pdf" attached to the 22 September 2011 official UK Border Agency response to Freedom of Information Request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... es_and_csi . DIRECT DOC LINK:
http://tinyurl.com/eea-csi-foi . Authored by European Operational Policy Team, issue number "7/2011 (Revised)".
[2] Paragraph 6.9 from "Guidance on dealing with applications from children born in UK to European Union nationals", DIRECT LINK:
http://tinyurl.com/eea-csi-rights-policy . The guidance is 100% relevant to me as the paragraph relates to the EEA nationals themselves (the parents), not the children. Authored by HM Passport Office, version 11.2014 .