I'm a non-EEA national married to an EEA national. I'm looking to apply for ILR (form EEA4) and it states that my EEA partner needs to demonstrate that they have been exercising treaty rights in the UK for 5 (consecutive - I've been told) years.
The form lists valid categories:
• Worker
• Self-employed
• Student
• Economically self-sufficient
• Retired
• Incapacitated
My question is, can they have exercised more than one of these categories within those 5 years? In my case, my wife was a "worker" then a "student" then a "worker" and then a sort of "student/worker". Can that be classified at 5 consecutive years of exercising treaty rights?
Her details (roughly):
• Working for 1 year (receptionist)
• Then did a master's degree for a year (did some part-time work but not throughout the whole of the year)
• Then went back to work for 1 more year (call centre)
• Then enrolled in midwifery NHS programme (6 months in theory/pracitice - receiving a stipend) and now 6 months in residency, receiving payment from the NHS.
Any clarification much appreciated.
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