EEA Family permit with domestic partnership from MA (USA)?

[ALBoston]

Hi all,

My husband and I got married on August 1st but we still did not get our marriage certificate. It will still take 7-14 days to get it. We nonetheless decided to become domestic partners in the state of Massachusetts on July 16th and got our domestic partnership certificate. We decided to apply for the EEA Family Permit using the domestic partnership certificate.

We are now wondering if we should go ahead and proceed with the application based on the domestic partnership (appointment for biometrics on August 19th) or if we'd rather wait one to two weeks and resubmit the application based on our marriage certificate and cancel the first one.

Thanks a lot,

AL

[chaoclive]

Hi all,

My husband and I got married on August 1st but we still did not get our marriage certificate. It will still take 7-14 days to get it. We nonetheless decided to become domestic partners in the state of Massachusetts on July 16th and got our domestic partnership certificate. We decided to apply for the EEA Family Permit using the domestic partnership certificate.

We are now wondering if we should go ahead and proceed with the application based on the domestic partnership (appointment for biometrics on August 19th) or if we'd rather wait one to two weeks and resubmit the application based on our marriage certificate and cancel the first one.

Thanks a lot,

AL

If your domestic partnership is equivalent to a UK civil partnership, it won't make a difference which one you choose to use. I'm not familiar with the D P'ship in the USA but you should check this out first.

Next: where is your partner/where are you from? I'm assuming you are/he's not British?