[quote="biefacitizen"][quote="MissIshMish"]I AM DONE!
Those having problems, do contact Solvit, as they helped us tremendously. These past couple weeks we filed complaints and worked along with Solvit. Now today, out of the blue, my husband says he has a gift. What was that gift? MY EEA RESIDENCE CARD!
Thank goodness as we did not have to appeal directly to UKBA. Everything was passed onto Solvit. Solvit managed to get UKBA to review our papers again and the caseworker saw the mistakes and realized they broke EU guidelines. During the course of five weeks from our first contact with Solvit, we got our refusal letters and filed complaints, and now hold my residence card.[/quote]
Could you please help us with your timeline and how did you send your complains, what do you mean solvit please give more information as my RC was refused yesterday based on a mistake and I really wish to solve this without having to appeal or to send a fresh aplication[/quote]
EEA1 and EEA2 were initially sent 15/07/12. Passports requested a month later and applications were automatically withdrawn. However, UKBA assigned a case number and requested more information from my husband about his self-employment (marketing materials, business cards, invoices, client testimonials). Applications submitted again and received 17/09/12.
I received my COA on 23/04/13. During the course I contacted the US Embassy for assistance. Our MP wrote a letter around the last week of March but never received a reply. I submitted complaints to UKBA, Rob Whiteman, and not once received anything. Before my COA was received we contacted Solvit (
http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/). My husband is Lithuanian so the Lithuania office were the ones we dealt with. During the course of 5 weeks until yesterday they got me my COA, we received a refusal letter, my husband submitted copies of the letters to Solvit, and they chased after UKBA for violating EU guidelines. Then yesterday I received my residence card and my husband his registration certificate.
