Hi,

I wouldn't send it back but wait for them to contact you. You may need your passport in the meantime. In effect, this will probably mean that your application will take a few days longer because by the time they finally want to work on it, they still have to ask for your passport to be returned - but at least you have your passport with you.

Very unlikely. The people who are picking up phones are unrelated to the ones that decide when your application is supposed to get out of the queue.

In which case they seem to be catching up with things. It used to be closer to 6 months, with some people having to wait longer than that. I strongly doubt whether your letter will show any results whatsoever. I tried speeding up things when we had a medical emergency in the family. It might have done the trick to some extent - but they still took about 8 weeks after receiving the letter to act!

Good luck!
Sebastian

 

I am a non-EU husband of my Polish wife planning to apply EEA Family Permit from Poland. I would like to know if I will be allowed to work in UK with this permit straight away. She will have a job just after arriving in the UK.

There are so many people telling so many things, and the information differs. We both are in a big stress. Please help!!!!


For jockey, I would like to ask 2 questions to you, hope you will reply. Any other people who have experiences as well, please help!

Were you allowed to work in the UK for these 2 years with just the EEA Family Permit?

Why didnt you apply for you EEA2 earlier, and why is it that you had to wait for 2 years?

 

Yes - your *right* to work depends on your status of being married to an EU citizen and not on any kind of permit. Whether your future employer will also see it in this way may be a different question.

It isn't illegal not to apply for EEA2 as basically the idea is that EU citizens and their spouses are treated equal to locals of the EU host country. And since the UK does not require their citizen to register with any authority (and as a consequence basically has no real idea who is living where ), they can't ask this of citizens of other EU member states (and their spouses) either. At least that's my interpretation of things - an UK immigration office will probably tell you otherwise...

Sebastian

 

Thanks very much for the replies.

We are so much relieved now with the permit thingy! Thanks indeed!!!!

Hence, I have one more thing to ask ...... When I will be applying the EEA Family Permit, I can have a job offer exactly in the same firm that my wife will be working. Do you guys think its better to show them the job offer or rather not?