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Is the report above accurate? Are those the answers you guys gave in the interview? If so, I´m sorry to say that you guys do not know each other, and that is unaligned with the idea of a genuine marriage.
Except it is the other way around. The wife is Nigerian, he's is a EU citizen living in the UK.
This is why we have all spelled out that if his marriage is genuine, then he has some options, which have been suggested.Do you want someone to be able to give you a great way to overcome all the ECO's points of concern.
@MYRA4U Why are you posting under two different user names - @DerickChu ? If you have read the Board Ts&Cs, you will have seen that this isn't permitted on the forum.MYRA4U wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:55 pmEveryone comes over here seeking for advise, opinion or solution to their problems and some people over here are acting like high court justices, thrashing and judging other without second thought.
I hate when people are so judgemental!!!
Common guys, such thing happens to people, anxiety and nerviousness from an interview.Some people could go for interview and even forgot some important dates, and
If you are not a moderator over here, and you have nothing positive to add, then just read other comments and take a nap and stop trashing others here Damn!! You think she want to get out of Nigeria by joining her Partner...
@Zerubbabel thank you for that points, cultures are different, i hate when people always assume that getting married within a short time is a marriage of convenience. Some of us in Europe takes years to get to know our partner before marriage, and 2 years after marriage is divorce.
From Home Office point of view i would understand, but not from some sick people on here.
Some Muslim friends that i know got married within weeks of knowing each other and are still together for years now, even with children involved as well.
@MikeSmith, i totally understand your frustration, especially with respect to Home Office, those guys are always looking for ways to reject application, they can easily manufacture excuses just to reject you a visa application. If for them every marriage is a marriage of convenience.
So again, its not the end of the road, i have seen people's application rejected twice but approved on the third time.
So you have to provide as much evidence as possible, make out enough time to discuss your future plans with your partner, make sure you guys are on the same page, and then start a new visa application if you have sufficient evidence.
Good luck.
Hey mike,MikeSmith wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:42 pmHi Guys,
I am an EU national married to a Nigerian. I applied for EEA Family Permit for my wife to join me and we got a refusal letter today. We were both interviewed through telephone sometimes last month
Here are the reason for the refusal
•You have stated that you are the spouse of your relevant EEA citizen sponsor, as named on your application form, and have provided a marriage certificate which states that your marriage was solemnised on 14th February 2020 in Lagos, Nigeria.
• In order to enable the Secretary of State to fully consider your application, you and your EEA citizen sponsor were both invited to attend an eligibility interview. These interviews, which took place over telephone on 15th June 2020, have highlighted a number of inconsistencies in both your own and your EEA citizen sponsor’s answers to several questions regarding your relationship.
• Firstly, it is noted that you both provide different accounts of your EEA citizen sponsor’s occupation in Lithuania prior to arriving in the UK. In your own interview, you describe how your sponsor was an “IT professional [and] doing a job in IT”, whereas your sponsor states that previously “[he] repaired cars that had been in accidents”. When asked when your EEA citizen sponsor first arrived in the UK, you also provide different months – October 2010 in your own interview, February 2010 in your EEA citizen sponsor’s interview.
• Discussing how and when you first made contact, you state that your cousin – also your EEA citizen sponsor’s colleague – first introduced you both in June 2019 after you gave her your permission to share your contact details. You go on to explain that your relationship then developed over “WhatsApp, phone calls and video calls everyday” before you started your romantic relationship in July 2019. Although your EEA citizen sponsor provides a similar account, he is less confident in providing the exact months these milestones occurred. For example, your EEA citizen sponsor states that you first made contact in “May or June 2019” and that your romantic relationship began in “July or August 2019”. Later, when asked who proposed marriage, you and your EEA citizen both agree that he asked you to marry him over the telephone – but you state that this occurred on 5th November 2019, whereas your EEA citizen sponsor instead states that this happened on 13th November 2019. This department would typically expect those in genuine relationships to accurately recall important dates of this nature.
• Similarly, when asked when you last saw each other, you state that this was on 15th February 2020 (the day after your marriage), whereas your EEA citizen sponsor states that this was a day later on 16th February 2020. Given that you and your EEA citizen sponsor have only ever seen each other in person on one occasion – between 10th February and 16th February 2020, during which time you got married on 14th February 2020 – it would not be unusual for this office to expect both parties to accurately recall the exact date that they last spent time together in person. It is also noted that neither you nor your EEA citizen sponsor
provide any answer to the follow-up question of “What had you done earlier on this day [the last day you saw your spouse]?”
• Further discrepancies emerge when you and your EEA citizen sponsor are questioned about your wedding day. For example, you state that you and your EEA citizen sponsor travelled to the registry office with your uncle, whereas your EEA citizen sponsor instead claims that you were picked up from the hotel by your brother and his wife. When asked who was in attendance at your marriage, your EEA citizen sponsor states: “Jane’s cousin Helen travelled with me. Her sister, brother, cousin, uncle. Larry her brother, Judith is her sister”. However, when asked the same question, you name four of your siblings who were present at your marriage (as opposed to the two siblings mentioned by your EEA citizen sponsor). You also do not refer to either of your sisters by the name “Judith”.
• There are also instances throughout both interviews where you and your EEA citizen sponsor display a lack of knowledge about each other which would seem unusual in a genuine marriage. For example, when asked where you live in Nigeria, your EEA citizen sponsor provides a different address from the one you provide to the interviewer. Your EEA citizen sponsor also replies “I don’t remember” when asked how long you have lived at your current residence, but in your own interview, you confirm that you have resided at the same address “since [you were] born”. Likewise, you respond “I don’t know” when asked how long your EEA citizen sponsor has been living at his current home, with your EEA citizen sponsor confirming in his own interview that he has lived at this residence for “about 5 or 6 years”. When asked if your EEA citizen sponsor lives with anyone else, you do not respond directly to this question, but instead state that “he lives in a one-bedroom apartment”. However, in his own interview, your EEA citizen sponsor confirms that he does, in fact, live with a friend whom he also works with at xxxxxx
• When asked how long you have been working as a hairdresser, your EEA citizen sponsor is unable to be specific, stating: “Not long, she started working there after university”. However, in your own interview, you confirm that this has been your occupation for “around one year”. When asked about your EEA citizen sponsor’s friends and family, you claim that “[he] does not have any friends and family apart from [your cousin] Helen”. However, when asked to confirm what friends and family he has, your EEA citizen sponsor contradicts your response by stating: “I have friends in Lithuania. I have friends but I don’t travel there [to Lithuania]. I [have] got friends in the UK. When I have time, I meet them for coffee or visit their houses and children”.
• Finally, you and your EEA citizen sponsor provide different accounts of what you intend to do should you arrive in the United Kingdom. You state your intention to “do a Master’s degree and find a job that suits [your] needs”, whereas your EEA citizen sponsor makes no reference to your plans for higher study and instead states that you are “going to work with [him]. 2 or 3 days a week and in [your] free time [you] will look for work. [He’s] asked [his] boss already and he’s agreed that [you] can do that.” It is noted that you make no mention of any such arrangements in your own interview.
• Based on the inconsistencies set out above, I have reasonable grounds to suspect that the marriage undertaken on 14th February 2020 to your EEA citizen sponsor as named on your application form is one of convenience entered into as a means to circumvent the requirements for lawful entry to the UK or Islands. As a result, I am not satisfied that you are the ‘family member of a relevant EEA
Next Steps
If you have further evidence you want us to consider, you can make another application under the EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit at no cost: https://www.gov.uk/family-permit/eu-set ... ily-permit
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this letter, details on contacting us can be found on our website: https://www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi-inside-outside-uk/y.
You can also appeal this decision to the First Tier Tribunal under the Immigration Citizens’ Rights Appeals (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. You have 28 days from the date since you received this decision to appeal.
You can appeal on the basis that the decision is not in accordance with the EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit rules, or that it breaches any rights you have under the Withdrawal Agreement, the EEA EFTA Separation Agreement, or the Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement. You may bring or continue an appeal from inside or outside the UK.
Information and support on how to appeal, the process, and the fees payable are all available online at [https://www.gov.uk/immigration-asylum-tribunal/overview].
You can get help and advice from a solicitor or an immigration adviser. You can also contact Citizens Advice. If you are not getting help from a legal representative you can read the guide on representing yourself.
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