I am an EEA national living and working in the UK. My non-EEA national husband is applying for a RC through EEA2.
The application was sent in mid-September, and of course he's yet to get his RC
.Now, he's requested his passport back to travel for Christmas and he received it today, so that's good. With it, came an accompanying letter asking him not to send it back unless it's requested by an Officer, which is fine and we know it's quite standard. However, the first paragraph of the letter confused us and I was wondering if this is part of the standard letter they send or not. It said something along the lines of "it should be noted that such applications are based on the EEA national proving that they are in the UK exercising treaty rights, and the relationship between the applicant and the EEA national should be proved".
Is this standard on letters or is it specific to our case? I've never read about that before, which is why I'm wondering.
We did provide proof of my work in the UK and our marriage certificate when we applied, and in the COA it was stated that he was considered the spouse of an EEA national, free to live and work in the UK.
I wonder if this first paragraph was because they saw that he'll be travelling by himself to my home country for Christmas, so they might have thought I lived there instead of the UK and he was visiting me for Xmas? When he emailed them to request his passport back, he copy-pasted his e-ticket which showed just his name going to and returning from my home (EU) country, but not my name. The truth is, I'll be going a few days in advance of him, and we're returning together, but when we booked the flights we made separate bookings because of the different outbound dates. That's all it is. Otherwise we are very much both living and working in the UK and we have plenty of additional proof for that, plus we'll have our boarding passes proving that we'll have travelled together and will have sat next to each other on our return flight to the UK.
But I was wondering if this is something standard that's stated in every letter that accompanies a passport return, or if they might have (wrongly) suspected us of something and they added it there because of that?
Sorry if I'm over-analyzing things!
Many thanks, good luck to everyone!