If she continues to work in the UK - I mean she doesn't give up her job - then she would only have to show that her income is enough to support you. I think the requirement for substantial savings would apply in a case where neither of you had a job when you applied for the EEA permit.

I think your problem is more likely to be proving that your marriage is not for the purpose of immigration. It might look like that to the UK authorities.

 

Absolutely right you are!



If you are engaged to EEA citizen with 5 years residence permit in UK you could get married in the UK. ,no need to go to Colombia!

 

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EU national do not have to prove anything!As I said in my previous post,person with 5 years residence permit in the UK and job can marry with no restriction whatsoever!!!!!No certificate needed.You can go to nearest church or registry office and do it within a week!
Any EU national that has been working in the UK for a year can apply for a 5 years residence.

http://www.workpermit.com/uk/fiance.htm

Unless you are engaged to an EU Citizen (not British citizen in this situation!) with a five year residence permit you must apply for entry from outside the UK. If you wish to apply from within the UK in other circumstances your application is likely to be refused unless you can show exceptional reasons why the application should be granted.

If you go to Colombia,get married,coming back to UK would not be a problem.Make sure that you have all the papers ready,whole process of you obtaining the family permit would be just formality,at no cost

Triple H

 

In principle, there should be no problem getting married in in your home country and returning to the UK. The reason I said there may be doubts is because doubts over the marriage are the only grounds on which they could hold up your application, if your spouse is working in the UK. The fact you were having problems with your visa would probably raise suspicion. That doesn't mean you wouldn't get the permit, it just means they might look a little closer at things.

 

Family permit should be given to him at no cost,in no time and no questions asked,but in practice all depends on some little admin people in Bogota.

 

You are right, the permit should be given free, as soon as possible and with (almost) no questions asked. But they *are* allowed to query whether you have a genuine marriage, as that is the basis for the issue of the permit. If you were having trouble with a visa application, that is a *legitimate* alert for the ECO that the marriage may not be genuine.

If you look at the problems my wife is having getting a visa for Denmark (in the thread "Schengen Visa for non-EEA spouse") you'll see that it isn't always so straightforward. Having said that, the UK are usually OK at applying EU law in these cases.