Love without borders... You can't even imagine it can you?
Hello dear friends,
I've been reading this forum (immigration for family members) for the past few days and I got red eyes of going through 57 pages! The caseworkers of the HomeOffice should read these forums and then see what kind of impact they have on people's lifes.
Where did my story start...
A little while ago I used to live in the Netherlands where I was also born.
Then I married the woman I love so much (she holds a Turkish passport).
The Netherlands were very strict in immigration and finally I got so annoyed that I decided to move to the UK after hearing of the 'EU-way'.
She received her EU family permit and we travelled together to London.
DECEMBER 2007 we made a joint application: a Registration Certificate (EEA1) for me and a residence card (EEA2) for her. We did send all the required documents: both passports, my most recent wage slip and the wedding certificate. I didn't send any additional docs like bankstatemens, because they will request for additional documents if needed. I HOPE I AM RIGHT ON THIS ONE?
We received the COA quite quickly and recently I got a letter requesting to send my most recent wage slip. I did send this and I received my Registration Certificate together with my passport. "Supporting documents have been retained to consider Spouse application".
The thing is that on the envelop itself it stated that the post came from the Croydon office, but the letter was signed by somebody within the LNC2 General Group Managed Migration Directorate in Liverpool. ?????
I have been reading that a lot of people are waiting to hear from the HomeOffice and that the HO exceed the limit of 6 months for a Residence Card. This has definitely to do with the changes that has occured recently between the Croydon - Liverpool move. Until Februar or so the application processing time for EEA2 was okay, but then it stopped and it has been staying at OCTOBER! for a couple of months now!
I want to now a couple of thing and hope you can help:
1) Have any of you had success by making a complaint to the HO complaints department or contacting Solvit on this matter?
2) Would it make sense to make a joint complaint to the EU or/and Solvit?
I mean together we are stronger than on our own. I think that the EU needs to know about this and chase up the UK for it or else this will continue.
3) What does LNC2 mean? This is the department where it came from. In the responses received from the HO, the caseworker name is everytime different?
4) Does anybody knows why it takes so long? Okay reorganisation Croydon-Liverpool etc., but is it because of a lack of resources or are they becoming stricter? We are paying enough tax I would say in order for them to have enough resources
Sorry for the long reply, but I am new and I need to catch up
I find this forum very helpful and hope that we can help each other, because...
LOVE IS STRONGER THAN ANY BORDER ON EARTH (I try to believe it is