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Cheers. We plan to have everything set up and then apply. We'll have our lease an accounts set up in about a months time.Plum70 wrote:As you know, the EEA FP is good for 6 months so no need to 'rush' into the EEA2 process. On the other hand, you may want to submit your EEA2 application as soon as is possible and request your passport back for convenience of travel, opening a bank account, securing a lease and other ID-related registration processes.
The EEA2 application should be completed in 6 months from the day the UKBA receives it. Waiting times are much better now than they were a year or two ago.
I’ve heard of people only submitting a copy of the EEA national’s passport, but when I submitted by EEA2 application with a notarised copy of my partner’s passport the entire application was returned – so I’d go the safe route and send both original passports in. Getting them back is easy: once your application has been acknowlegded, just emailkabuki wrote:Cheers. We plan to have everything set up and then apply. We'll have our lease an accounts set up in about a months time.Plum70 wrote:As you know, the EEA FP is good for 6 months so no need to 'rush' into the EEA2 process. On the other hand, you may want to submit your EEA2 application as soon as is possible and request your passport back for convenience of travel, opening a bank account, securing a lease and other ID-related registration processes.
The EEA2 application should be completed in 6 months from the day the UKBA receives it. Waiting times are much better now than they were a year or two ago.
Also, how does requesting your passport back work? Can you hold onto it through the application process? Do they hold onto the EEA nationals passport as well? Come Sept I'll be too busy with my PGCE to really go anywhere, but come Dec/Jan, we'd like to travel for the holidays.
mastermind72 wrote:Missmineaola:
Can you please provide a link as to where does this appear on the UKBA website (that partners cohabition for two years is discretionary?).
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This in itself confers disproportionate power/ discretion on him than the directive itself allow.[b]REGULATIONS 17 (4b) says[/b] wrote:
(4) The Secretary of State may issue a residence card to an extended family member not falling within regulation 7(3) who is not an EEA national on application if—
(a)
the relevant EEA national in relation to the extended family member is a qualified person or an EEA national with a permanent right of residence under regulation 15; and
(b)
in all the circumstances it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate to issue the residence card.