Hi everyone.
Yesterday we received our RC. We are soooo happy. It is an amazing feeling specially when you got positive decision.
Let me walk you through the process from our point of view.
I am EU national with permanent residence (issued by HO after 5 years of exercising Treaty rights in the UK) my husband is non EU national.
The whole process is not complicated. Try to find as much documents, proofs as you can. The hard part is the waiting, waiting for the decision.
14 July 2013- sent EEA2 application
18 July 2013- received a confirmation letter from HO
Start of August 2013- received Certificate of Application with permit to work for next 6 months
For next few months we did not hear anything.....
7 November 2013 - call from HO to my employer to confirm my employment
13 November 2013- RC arrived..whohoooo
All together ....3 months and 3 weeks of waiting....quite fast
Your identification: passports and if you have permanent residence
Proof of address: any bill or letters (originals)
- TV Licence
- Council tax bill
- Tenancy contract/agreement
- bank statements
- BT bills
- mobile phone bills
- letters from school/college
- letters from your credit card provider
In a case you are paperless- most of your bills you receive on-line (as me
try e.g. get a stamp from bank on your print copy bank statement. The stamp is a proof that your bank statement is original and yes you are the owner of the account.
As far as I know HO prefer original documents...
Employment: - Employment confirmation letter issued by employer
- Original contract
- P60
- payslips (make sure address on your newest payslips match your current address where you live)
- Company business card ( we do not have company stamp which is required in the application so I attached company business card)
Your relationship: - photos from past, present.....as much as you have...different occasions, different time.....
- short letter (approx. 20 sentences) about you and your relationship, what is the story in short....with dates and places...where you met, how you met, when he propose, where you went for first date....and so on
Wedding: - photos ( you as couple, wedding ceremony, wedding party, people on your wedding, group photos...)
- wedding certificate
- Weeding confirmation from the venue where you had your wedding (our wedding was not in the Council but we organised approved wedding venue. We set up details and they estimated price. Then the wedding coordinator sent us a confirmation/agreement letter)
- Save the date card/invitation for wedding
- Congratulation on Your Wedding cards (2-3 cards)
This is everything what we sent to HO and we received positive decision, Residence Card.
Each case is different and you might send 5 kg of documents your application might be refused. You really never know what is missing or why you need to give more proof... But do not give up!!! Prepare yourself and make sure that you send everything what is relevant to your application.
I wish all of you the best of luck on the long journey.