Hello all, I'm writing in the hope that one of you fine experts could help me to clarify a few things regarding the Surinder Singh route? The EU settlement scheme office is currently closed to phone calls and my three question and answer responses from them have been next to useless so far - a presume a result of the COVID19 chaos.
So, i'm a British citizen, and my civil partner is a non-EU national but is a legal EU resident with an Article 10 residence card here in Spain. We also have a dependent child who is a non-EU national. We've been residing together for a number of years and have all the documentation to prove it etc.
We're trying for the Surinder Singh route, which I understand we are eligible for as we've lived together in an EU country, we're in a formal civil partnership, we've made an EU our centre of life etc etc, so we seem to tick all the boxes. However I've just been looking over some of the application forms for the route which I've found via this forum and FOI reuests, and I'm trying to understand why questions on the applicaton ask you need to prove you've lived in the UK for 1 day in the last six months? Isn't the whole point of Surinder Singh that I am returning to the UK with them? In which case, they haven't lived in the UK yet? Could somebody wiser than me clarify this?
My other question is, and it's probably an impossible question in this climate of uncertaintly, but do you think it's realistic to expect the applications to be approved by mid-Sept (just over 4.5 months time)? As I have a teacher training job starting in Sept and we're all terribly anxious.
Any help or thoughts would be very much appreciated!
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