Health Insurance - EEA student worker couple

[grad_studentgbhb]

Hi, both me and my wife have EEA nationality and we have been living in UK over 6 years. I have been studying during this period (post-graduate and then phd) and looking after children while my wife has been working. I haven't had any private health insurance however as a spouse of working person I was entitled to nhs exemption card. I wonder if I have been insured (i.e. as a house husband) and if can use this fact when applying for citizenship ?

Many thanks for any help

[Jambo]

If your wife has been working then you don't need CSI (you are considered a family member of EEA national exercising treaty rights). You can apply for PR confirmation using EEA3 or directly for BC if lived in the UK for at least 6 years and your wife has exercised rights for at least 5 years period ending one year before applying.

[nonspecifics]

I presume this would relate to you applying for permanent residence.

Yes, rather than applying by yourself as exercising treaty rights, your spouse can apply for PR on EEA3 and include you as an EEA family member of an EEA national who is exercising treaty rights.

If you applied for a residence certificate EEA1 before June 2010 as a student, then you would be exempt from the need for CSI if you wanted to apply by yourself.

[Jambo]

If you applied for a residence certificate EEA1 before June 2010 as a student, then you would be exempt from the need for CSI if you wanted to apply by yourself.

The exemption is before June 2011. But as said there is no need for that as you can apply as a family member (even if for some reason, your wife doesn't wish to).

[nonspecifics]

Yes, it's June 2011. My mistake.

Thanks for the correction Jambo.

UKBA CHAPTER 6 PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Annex B – Comprehensive sickness insurance – Transitional arrangements for students

Note: These arrangements apply only to EEA nationals applying for
permanent residence documentation (or for exempt registration
certificates for A2 nationals) on the basis of being a student where they
have been issued with a registration certificate in that capacity before 20th June 2011.

1. From 20th June 2011 all EEA national students and self-sufficient
persons (including A2 nationals) who are applying for documentary
evidence of their right to reside in the UK, must provide evidence that
they have comprehensive sickness insurance in the UK.

2. Transitional arrangements are being introduced, so that an application
for permanent residence as a student will not be refused solely on the
grounds that there is no evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance
on the date of decision where:

 UKBA issued a registration certificate to the applicant on the basis of
their residence in the UK as a student before 20th June 2011.

3. When considering a permanent residence application in such a case
the caseworker should also assume that time spent in the UK prior to
the grant of the registration certificate was time spent in compliance
with the comprehensive sickness insurance requirement.

4. Caseworkers must check the Case Information Database to ensure the requirements of the transitional arrangements are met. If these
requirements are met, and the application for permanent residence
does not include any evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance,
then the application can be considered as if regulation 4(d)(ii) has been
met.

5. Examples of when the transitional arrangements do not apply include,
but are not limited to, the following:

 EEA nationals who have already been issued with a registration
certificate on another basis (for example as a worker) and who then
became a student (but who did not reapply for a document confirming
this before

20th June) will not be treated under these transitional arrangements. Such applicants must show evidence of comprehensive sickness insurance for any time spent in the UK as a student.

 Where an application for permanent residence is received on the basis that the EEA national is a student, but they have never been granted a registration certificate, then they must show evidence that they have had comprehensive sickness insurance for the duration of their time spent as student.

[fakharraza]

Hi ,
Can we apply as both Student and worker, my Wife is EU citizen studying and working part time 15hrs a week.
I can provide her Employment Letter and university Letter. BUT SHE DOES NOT HAVE NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBER yet.
so can we tick both Worker and student on the EEA @ Form ?
THANKS