Ok heres the story. Came over to Italy late 2007 and started working here. I met someone who now happens to be my fiance. She is from Philippines. My parents are from there too but I was born and raised in the UK.Anyway, she got pregnant last March 2008 and we were really happy!! Unfortunately she is illegal in Italy but this is being temporarily resolved as she received a permesso di soggiorno per cura mediche ( a permit to stay for only a year during and after the pregnancy).
She applied for a visitors visa in June 2008 to see and meet my family.
She got refused as the clearance officer saw that she was only legal because of her pregnancy and also the fact that she entered Italy in 2005 and was basically not paying any taxes towards the government( she wanted to but how could she though, she was illegal).
So this is my question. I'm thinking of applying for the EEA family permit and wonder if this is similar to the "Surinder Singh" case.
I 've been working here in Italy more than 6 months and have an Identity card and residency here--Our son was born 2 weeks ago and he will become British automatically through me. Next month we are going to get married which will then make her legal here- What are the chances of her being accepted now?..also after getting her permesso soggiorno(permit to stay)after we get married here will she be "legally resident"?or does she need to file for residency too?(i mean by address etc.) . Will they consider this a marriage of convenience even if we have a child now together??will her previous refusal affect this application? Sorry for the long post. Hope someone can please help?
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