we got married in June 2004.
as she was from a new member state I first got a 1 year family mamber stamp in July 2004.
then in August 2005 i got a 5 year residence permit.
As far as Iunderstand I can apply for PR 5 years after we have been maried, but I am still not quite sure if I can upply under EEA4 in June 2009 (which is 5 year weading anniversary) or August 2010 when my 5 year permit expires.
Actually I think your 5th anniversary of exercising EU Treaty Rights comes up in
July 2009! We are talking about pre-30.04.06 time here and I think the relevant start date is when you started to exercise EU Treaty Rights in the UK .... when the one year permit was issued.
Put it another way, I think it is in July 2009 that you get PR status .... automatically, and without application! You have not got to make an application at all. However for a non-EEA family member such as yourself it is actually a good idea to submit the form EEA4, but do appreciate that the documentation you will get back will not actually give you any more rights ...... it merely confirms that you have those rights.
I suggest you submit the form EEA4 in say February 2009. Such applications are currently taking 6 months or even more to process, so the date when you get PR status automatically will happen during that processing period.
By the way, what was your UK immigration status prior to the issue of "1 year family member stamp in July 2004"?
