Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:your application is not one which gives rise to semi automatic approval. [Your] relationship is not one of those which are trivially documented with a certificate
epic wrote:[..] It was not a simple certificate its an official Argentinian gov certificate signed by the gov+2 witness that actually states that its more than 2 years cohab. It was translated and certified. That's why it's strange they didn't take that as an evidence and they only sticked on the Bills that were all from 2012.
Your relationship does not fall into the
category of relationship which is allowed to be trivially certified by a certificate. Even if the certificate is issued by the Queen and has ten witnesses.
This is a little interesting. I thought the OP had a civil partnership type certificate. While these may have been designed for same-sex couples, some countries do not limit their use to such relationships ie hetro-sexual couples can make use of them also. So let's explore this for one second; if the OP's partner was male, UKBA would accept his certificate as a civil partner, because his partner is female, they won't.
Of course, I do not have sight of the OP's certificate and am not fully familiar with its legal status in Argentina or in the UK.
I agree that a marriage certificate would be simpler to use.
