Congrats!
You must be relieved.
Hey, they always say its "under consideration" even long after the application has been completed. We received our residency stuff several weeks ago, but not our passports, and I've called them several times and before I've had a chance to explain the situation, the officer says "your application is under consideration."
Anyway, we did get our passports back today, so we too can go home for the holidays too.
Let me tell you guys that stuff gets delayed even in the mail room. They had a Special Delivery envelop that I had sent and they called me on 1 Dec saying it had been sent out and our passports would arrive the next day, but turns out it just sits in the mail room until they get around to sending packages out.
Kelly

 

eh eh !!!!!

it is amazing because I also received our permits today !

What happened at the home office ?

It is so great to think we will all be home for christmas

I wish you all the best

and HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Peggy

 

congratulations peg.peg!
That realy was a great day.My lucky one.And I mached 4 numbers in lottery last night(just like 32350 other people)
Thank you everyone for being here and supporting me.Enjoy you british residency
Marry Xmas

magda

 

About my waiting time

 

Hello everyone,

I just got my residence permit and my husband's and my passport today and wanted to post timings as it has been useful for me to read other's peoples messages with this info.

Applied for Residence permit: 14 October 2005 (application received on 15 Oct.)
Date of issue: 13 December 2005
Passports received: 15 December 2005

It's been a total of 8 weeks. I called the Home Office a three or four times to ask the process of the application (they always said "awaiting consideration", last time I called, a couple of weeks ago, they had changed to "under consideration").

Good luck to everyone.

 

Hi everybody!! this site is really helpfull..i dont know that there are more forum like this on eu...but i find myself to be very lucky to find this as this forum help me a lot...honestly i do check this forum at least a week since i applied for my COA(marriage).

We send our application on 31 October and are STILL WAITING and im looking for people from my era...lol

we send our application on old application forms as new one looks confusing and they send acknowlegement on 13 nov saying that it will be forward to caseworker.....havnt recieved anything after that....but last week home office contacted my wife employer asking about her paye blah blah...

i dont know how long will it take..........? last time COA took approx 3 months...

 

waiting time

Hi all~
My partner and i have received our passports back on 6th of jan 06.

here's the summary.

us: european and non-european couple.
send off eec1 form on 14th of october 05.
received by home office on 25th of october 05
dates on the stamp: 5th of jan 06
passports received by us on 6th of jan 06

total waiting time: 10 weeks and some days.

even though i missed the christmas dinner with my bf's family in spain, it worked out ok in the end.

i share the feelings with those who are still waiting. and good luck to them.

 

Hi .... i am just about for EEA1 .... I am from poland. i have a query about this application form. I am working in Uk from last 16 months in one place and i want to apply for residence permit. I can have contract if emplyment from my employer .. i can also have letter fom employer saying that i am working in that place from last 12 months but can you please tell :-

1) what can i send to homeoffice if i dont have all the wage slips from last 12 months... i have from may2005 till january 2006,.... the remaining ones are in poland 'coz i had to sort out something about my income tax there...?? what else can i send to home office instead of wage slips ?? P45..P46..P60 ??

ur advice will be highly appreciated..!!

 

Re: waiting time

Dear friend....did u send application on 14th and recieved by homeoffice on 25th ???......did u call during this period...i called homeoffice last week and they told me that it is under consideration....can anybody tell me should i call them again next week....i will be getting holidays after two weeks and i want to go to portugal with my wife...but still waiting for passport

 

Fees????

What are the fees associated with applying for an EEA1 and EEA2? I have found the forms, however, cannot find the amount for the fees?

Is it like £50K (just kidding )? But seriously when I did research about work permits and fiancée visas, the fees varied from £75 to £260.

Thank you.

 

There are NO fees for any of the European applications!--The ONE good thing about the process
Good luck

 

Re: Fees for EEA forms!!

Well, that definitely takes the sting out of the wait times then

Thank you - my husband will be most pleased, so will the bank account

 

Hi,

I have called the HO for the status of my EEA1 and EEA2.
On Monday it was 'Awaiting further consideration' and yesterday it had changed to 'under consideration'.
Does anyone know what happens next?
Is there another status change?
How long will this take?

Thanks a lot .

 

Hiya!!

Have just sent off EEA2 application to HOme office on 21 Feb, fingers crossed this will not take long.

Let the fun and games begin!!