Neonleon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:12 pm
hugmot55 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:42 pm
Neonleon wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:35 pm
Received a call back from the EU Settlement team in the early afternoon after chasing them for 3 days. The guy said he will take my and my parents details in order to determine if they qualify under Surinder Singh route and before ending the call he said he will pass on the their details to another team (within EU Settlement team) and they will send the forms in the post but don't know when, may be in a weeks time or 10 days or more
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Well, although, EU Settlement team says a new set for Surinder Singh route of forms is under development and those new forms will be posted to Surinder Singh routers but they still have the current form available on their website which is more than 100 pages. If the old form is obsolete than why they don't take it off.
Hi NeonLeon, what all documents are you planning to submit with parents application? I am in the same boat
@hugmot55 I hopefully fill the forms over the weekend (keeping fingers crossed). I will share the chronology of our case in a new post
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under EEA section so others can comment, suggest and ask questions. I will try to list all documents here so you may have a look and let me know if you or someone else think I also do need any additional documentation
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What documents are you planning to attach, if you already know and don't mind sharing. May I also ask what entry stamp your NON-EEA Family got on their passport/s when they enter the UK
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. You may read my original post to read more details. Thanks
Hi
I am not sure if you will find this helpful but i thought I will post here the documents that I have prepared in readiness for my application. Please bear in mind i am applying for settled status using a Surinder Singh RC.
Prepared documents are as follows-
1. My passport and my wife's passport as evidence of identities
2. Marriage certificate as evidence of relationship. ( I am also including bills and other documents dating back to 5 yrs which evidences genuine marriage, although i am not sure if this will be necessary, but i have the documents ready just in case).
3. I am sure the National insurance numbers of both myself and wifey will pull out 5 years record of living in the UK, but i have also ordered 5 years worth of bank statements from my bank and wifey's bank just in case.
4. Nobody knows whether the forms will request evidence of the Brit living and working in another EU state as seen in the case of PR applications, but I have endeavoured to have these documents ready. A lot of these documents were lost by HO when I applied for my RC in 2013 but luckily, I scanned and kept electronic copies of each document that I sent at the time. This was because it was very common for HO to lose your documents around that time, not sure if that still happens much these days. So I printed out the scanned documents and sent each of them to their issuing organisations in Ireland, requesting a cover letter certifying that they are genuine documents. Some of the organisations were magnanimous enough to issue me fresh copies of the bills from their records, and the rest issued ceftifying cover letters. As I said, all of these may not be necessary for the new settlement scheme application, but it is better to be ready.
5. Guidance in the scheme mentioned that it is not required for the Brit to exercise treaty rights following arrival in the UK, so i dont think it is necessary to collate evidence that my Mrs has been working since November ,25, 2016. However, i do have ready, a seperate set of banks statements from 2016 till date for my Mrs if required. But i am sure this wont be required.
6. Now I am not sure whether the test of centre of life will to come into thie application process as there is a link on the settlement scheme page which directs you to eligibility requirements if applying in the surinder singh category. In that link, there was talk of centre of life and whether the move to the EU country was aimed at circumventing UK immigration rules. What I am not sure about is whether that link is a newly prepared guideline for this new settlement scheme or whether this was the previous guideline under the PR application, which was just linked to the new settlement scheme in the hope of giving applicants a general overview of eligibility reqirements. We can only hope that this stringent requirements will not apply under this new application process. Whatever the case maybe, i dont imagine that the centre of life requirement will be applicable to me as i applied for my RC in 2013 and I am covered by the transitioal arrangements in the 2006 EEA regulations. The new settlement scheme caseworker guidance asked workers to give consideration to the transitional arrangements. The extent to which centre of life rules will be applied under this new scheme remains to be seen.
So thats my preparation for application under the new scheme so far. If anyone feels there is something I may have missed out, please suggest. Better to be over-prepared than risk a refusal.
Shalom!