EEA2 Application Timelines - ONLY 1 TOPIC - UpToDate

goodies · Post by **goodies** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:49 pm

isw_london wrote:Hi everyone,

I'm really sorry to hear that some of your applications are taking so long, and I hope my news gives you hope rather than makes you more frustrated... I received my RC today!!

My final timeline is:
Application dated: 28 Feb 2012
Application received by HO: 29 Feb 2012
COA received: 30 Mar 2012 (dated 28 Mar)
RC received: 28 Apr 2012 (dated 11 Apr)

So it is possible for HO to process applications quite quickly. Good luck to you all!!

Congrats, i didn't know HO can process application so quick. We hope to get our RC soon, fingers cross

aluter · Post by **aluter** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:55 pm

isw_london wrote:
aluter wrote:
Woow that is impressive! is it because your employer rang them to enquirer about it?

I am happy for you and att he same time jealous! lol

Did you apply as married? do you have kids? how long have you been married for before you sent off your application and what is your nationality??

sorry for all this questions, I rang them a few days ago but the lady refused to give any update on my application.

Thanks Aluter. I hope yours comes soon!

I think it helped that my employer contacted them (I believe they wrote a long email). My employer's concern was that my COA did not give me the right to work, and my visa did not last for the entire 6 months that they could have taken to process my RC. My RC is dated 11 April. My employer contacted HO around 6 April. But HO waited until the 24th to inform my employer that a decision had been made. Not sure why the two week delay since they'd already issued the RC.

I applied as unmarried partner, no kids, NZ passport. I have been living with my boyfriend for nearly 3 years - 1.5 years in UK and the rest of that time in another EU country.

Hope this helps! Good luck!!

Thank you for the reply. it is nice that to know that they actually can process applications fast!.

Hope there is good news for the rest of us next week.

jayven · Post by **jayven** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:59 pm

[quote="isw_london"]Hi everyone,

I'm really sorry to hear that some of your applications are taking so long, and I hope my news gives you hope rather than makes you more frustrated... I received my RC today!!

My final timeline is:
Application dated: 28 Feb 2012
Application received by HO: 29 Feb 2012
COA received: 30 Mar 2012 (dated 28 Mar)
RC received: 28 Apr 2012 (dated 11 Apr)

So it is possible for HO to process applications quite quickly. Good luck to you all!![/quote]

congratulation mate!
hope our RC will come soon!

zahirsona · Post by **zahirsona** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:17 am

congratulation you got RC its so fast i think the HO start work our application
my timeline is :
Application send :20 jan 2012
Application received by HO: 23 jan 2012
COA received: 27 Feb 2012 with right to work
spouse passport request: 15 march 2012
spouse passport received:17 march 2012
RC still waiting ?????
hope received next week

zubby007 · Post by **zubby007** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:35 am

Aluter just to add to your findings, in my own Opinion I think they HO also makes their decisions very very easy and soft on Non-visa Nationals, does that make Sense at all? [b][/b]

greatscott · Post by **greatscott** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:29 pm

zubby007 wrote:Aluter just to add to your findings, in my own Opinion I think they HO also makes their decisions very very easy and soft on Non-visa Nationals, does that make Sense at all?

I don't agree- these ongoing insinuations are starting to smack of something not nice.

We're a simple case, non-visa national, every box ticked-- still no coa !

guess some people are just luckier than others.

99% of the moaners on this site received their coa's within 2-3 weeks, and are moaning because they are nearing 3-4 months in a 6 month process...

prejudice and alluding to beloved (some previous posters) just doesn't stick anymore guys- try another angle or shut up

--delivered 20/2

--coa ??

zubby007 · Post by **zubby007** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:36 pm

[quote="greatscott"][quote="zubby007"]Aluter just to add to your findings, in my own Opinion I think they HO also makes their decisions very very easy and soft on Non-visa Nationals, does that make Sense at all? [b][/b][/quote]

I don't agree- these ongoing insinuations are starting to smack of something not nice.

We're a simple case, non-visa national, every box ticked-- still no coa !

guess some people are just luckier than others.

99% of the moaners on this site received their coa's within 2-3 weeks, and are moaning because they are nearing 3-4 months in a 6 month process...

prejudice and alluding to beloved (some previous posters) just doesn't stick anymore guys- try another angle or shut up

--delivered 20/2

--coa ??

[/quote][quote]

Don't get me wrong Mate, I guessed you mistook my post to Something else, I was just expressing my personal views which is 100% allowed in this Great Country, anyway Best of luck hope you got yours Soon.[/quote]

greatscott · Post by **greatscott** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:38 pm

Gubi2004 wrote:hi salamin, i do agree with you about all you said in your post about home office and i can see too many people blaming you on what you said, so anybody dont like the post just please dont comment we have the right to say about our feelings and yeeeeeeeeeeeeees home office is raciest to delay and take long time 6 mopnth is very long and the way the respons by phone very rude and as if we are not same human and or we are low class, so dont worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry salamin and say what you feel, no wonder home office do such things as far as we see from comment that people defending them on what they do rubbishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

zubby007 wrote:Aluter just to add to your findings, in my own Opinion I think they HO also makes their decisions very very easy and soft on Non-visa Nationals, does that make Sense at all?

zubby007 wrote:Don't get me wrong Mate, I guessed you mistook my post to Something else, I was just expressing my personal views which is 100% allowed in this Great Country, anyway Best of luck hope you got yours Soon.

Really? what exactly were you trying to say?- do you have facts to support your statement or some inside information no-one else is privy to?

haringnl83 · Post by **haringnl83** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:47 pm

We have just posted my EEA3 application and my husband's and his daughter's EEA2 applications on April 20th. I will keep everyone updated on what happens next. I requested the CoA immediately in the cover letter so I will let everyone know when we get that too

reda · Post by **reda** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:18 pm

haringnl83 wrote: I requested the CoA immediately in the cover letter

do you think is going to speed the things up?

no one going to read your cover letter before the day they issue for you CoA letter.

CondorVilla · Post by **CondorVilla** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:07 am

goodies wrote:
CondorVilla wrote:I sent an email April 6th asking for our passports to be returned for emergency travel and I have received neither a reply nor our passports. I'm nervous because other people mentioned getting their passports very quickly...

Could it be that I requested it too soon? Or that my partner's visa expired beginning of April? (We married on 1 MAR 2012 so he is still legally allowed to be here)
CondorVilla, Pls try and call HO on phone,hope this time they will respond to your request. All the best

I am livid. Still not passport. I called on Monday to speak to someone and requested it, she said I would get it by Friday. Friday I called again because we didn't receive the passports, after 15 minutes on hold spoke to someone who told me that the request for the passport is on the computer but it appears it hasn't been sent out yet. She also told me that she couldn't do anything because the request was less than 5 days old (apparently they never processed the THREE emails I sent requesting the passports) and to call back on Monday.

To add insult to injury, she told me my application was only put into the system on April 16, a month after I sent it, and that my partner should expect his COA in a few weeks...

I have my only remaining grandmother in the hospital, all alone, for a month now, and UKBA won't give me my passport! I am so frustrated I am in tears. Does anyone have any advice on who else to contact? If I don't have good news tomorrow when I call, I am thinking of contacting my MP but I'm not sure if that will do any good?

Sorry to vent but I am so angry right now...

eea2raheem · Post by **eea2raheem** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:06 pm

Any updates from december applicants.
RC??????

goodies · Post by **goodies** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:32 pm

[quote="eea2raheem"]Any updates from december applicants.
RC??????[/quote

I've held nothing from home office, I don't know why December applications are keeping so long.

bandor · Post by **bandor** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:14 pm

a fellow December applicant, No decision as yet either.

the wait is killing me

Samelamin · Post by **Samelamin** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:33 pm

+1 here

I remember one december applicant got theirs but the rest of us are on hold

Anatole · Post by **Anatole** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:14 pm

Nothing, nada, niente....

Amarula · Post by **Amarula** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:45 pm

Applied on December 27th, COA 17th January, nothing since

(((((((((

chippy · Post by **chippy** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:46 pm

nothing yet I'm still waiting

Ms.Montagne · Post by **Ms.Montagne** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:54 pm

I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Keshav_Din · Post by **Keshav_Din** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:11 pm

Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations to you... I applied on the same date as you and my COA is dated 22 February 2012. I haven't received anything yet... But hey am very happy for you.

Just a matter of time I suppose

Anatole · Post by **Anatole** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:19 pm

Keshav_Din wrote:
Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations to you... I applied on the same date as you and my COA is dated 22 February 2012. I haven't received anything yet... But hey am very happy for you.

Just a matter of time I suppose

Happy for you, really. But gutted. Simply gutted by the fact that there does not seem to be any logic or fairness. The latter being the least we could expect.

goodies · Post by **goodies** » Tue May 01, 2012 1:47 am

Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations. Hope everyone at this forum receives their RC soon, but as a matter of fact HO is not being fair at all. Right now they have by pass december applicants and issuing RC for january applicants. I really dont know what is exactly going on???????????

Samelamin · Post by **Samelamin** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:10 am

Anatole wrote:
Keshav_Din wrote:
Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations to you... I applied on the same date as you and my COA is dated 22 February 2012. I haven't received anything yet... But hey am very happy for you.

Just a matter of time I suppose
Happy for you, really. But gutted. Simply gutted by the fact that there does not seem to be any logic or fairness. The latter being the least we could expect.

Tell me about it, The fact is non visa nationals are taking an extremely long time. Im not insinuating beloved but its hard not to feel dissapointed by the lack of fairness

varna1983 · Post by **varna1983** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:14 am

Samelamin wrote:
Anatole wrote:
Keshav_Din wrote:
Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations to you... I applied on the same date as you and my COA is dated 22 February 2012. I haven't received anything yet... But hey am very happy for you.

Just a matter of time I suppose
Happy for you, really. But gutted. Simply gutted by the fact that there does not seem to be any logic or fairness. The latter being the least we could expect.
Tell me about it, The fact is non visa nationals are taking an extremely long time. Im not insinuating beloved but its hard not to feel dissapointed by the lack of fairness

Just as a matter of fact, i am an eu citizen and sent my app eea3 on d 7th of february and its gonna be almost 3 months now and still waiting! So HO discriminate everyone! Not to mention that a friend of mine sent d very same application on the 20th of march and got her pr after 3 weeks...so where is the justice?

flashware · Post by **flashware** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:16 am

Samelamin wrote:
Anatole wrote:
Keshav_Din wrote:
Ms.Montagne wrote:I've received my RC yesterday!

My timeline has been so far,

27/01/2012 Application
22/02/2012 COA Received(dated 14/02/2012)
29/04/2012 RC Received(dated 26/04/2012)

I'm an American girl who married to a Spanish guy.
This forum has been a big emotional support since last December.
Hope everybody could receive their RC soon!

Congratulations to you... I applied on the same date as you and my COA is dated 22 February 2012. I haven't received anything yet... But hey am very happy for you.

Just a matter of time I suppose
Happy for you, really. But gutted. Simply gutted by the fact that there does not seem to be any logic or fairness. The latter being the least we could expect.
Tell me about it, The fact is non visa nationals are taking an extremely long time. Im not insinuating beloved but its hard not to feel dissapointed by the lack of fairness

Can you clarify what you mean by a non-visa national?

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