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Can't really help on your COA question, but you do need to be aware that the EEA Family Permit is not permanent residence in the UK. Citizens of EEA states (other than Ireland) aren't deemed to be "permanent residents" either until that status is obtained.VV wrote:Firstly, thanks to every one for this forum.
I am a national of Paraguay, engaged to a Dutch national who has a fulltime job in London since March this year and we want to get married and eventually settle in the UK. For the past 5 and half years I have been living in the Netherlands as a student (first as undergraduate, now as graduate student). At the moment I'm in London with my fiance on the standard LTR for 6 months obtained on entering the UK, because, obviously, we want to be together.
My 1st question(s) is (are): how does this month's ruling on the CoA affect people with the same type of LTR as mine? Do I still need to go back to Holland and apply for the visitor-to-get-married visa? Do people still have to apply for the CoA at all?
Then, regarding the visa types, an officer in the Britsh Consulate in Amsterdam told me I should get the standard visa for visitors (see here http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servle ... 4069173793 ) to come to London, get married and then go back to Holland and apply for the EEA Family Permit from there. I'm sure I've read many times before that visa-country nationals should have a visa for longer than 6 months if they wish to marry in the UK, so why do I need to go and get a standard visa? Moreover, how is that 6-month visa different from the one I've got on my passport right now and which I can get basically every time I enter the UK?
Thank you for bearing with me, and hope you can answer my questions.
Thanks very much for the replies. So from your reply I gather that one does not need both the marriage visit visa and the COA, one only needs one or the other, is that correct?So I think the answer is that you do still need either a COA (which I don't think you qualify for) or a marriage visit visa. Sorry to say that I think the advice you received from the Consulate General in Amsterdam was not correct.
Yes and Yes! (Except it isn't the GRO - it's your local registry office..)VV wrote:Thanks very much for the replies. So from your reply I gather that one does not need both the marriage visit visa and the COA, one only needs one or the other, is that correct?So I think the answer is that you do still need either a COA (which I don't think you qualify for) or a marriage visit visa. Sorry to say that I think the advice you received from the Consulate General in Amsterdam was not correct.
Because the next step my fiance and I are going to take is for me to go back to Holland to apply for the marriage visit visa. Once I'm back in the UK, can we go straight to the General Register Office to give notice of our marriage?
Just to clarify: I'm a girl, I'm from Paraguay, but I have residence in the Netherlands as a student. My boyfriend/fiance is Dutch.
Thank you so much for pointing out all these things, we have really entangled ourselves so much with all these rules and regulations that we may be making things more complicated than necessary.Yes and Yes! (Except it isn't the GRO - it's your local registry office..)
I must confess to a bt of puzzlement as to why you're going down this route, though. Why come as a visitor for marriage, if you're intending eventually to settle here. Isn't that inserting an extra unnecessary step into the process?