I am british and my partner of 8 years is non EEA but legally resident in Spain, we now live in UK but with no visa. What form should we use to get my partner legal here or is he already legal being a third country national legally resident in another EEA member state?

 

British national & non EEA national & no visa

I am british and I am also resident in Spain, so you can be resident in two countries at the same time. Today we applied for a NI number we will have to wait to see what happens. On the website hmrc says that a third country national legally resident in another EEA member state has a right to reside in the UK but what I don't know if once he is here in the uk he needs someother kind of visa etc.

 

Re: British national & non EEA national & no visa

Thank you so much and I have read those posts you sent me and many times too but its all so confusing as I rang HO and they said he has to leave UK and apply for an entry clearance as a partner but I'm sure that is not correct, besides he has only 3 months left on his travel document and he goes back to Spain for this visa he would not be able to get back to the uk as the Venezuelan consulate have no material to renew passports and are only issueing travel documents to travel to Venezuela and once in venezuela you cannot leave. his last travel document I aquired with a lot of crying and pleading because I said that if they don't give him it they would be separating a family.
Its all very complicated so thats why I need to to get this all sorted out from the uk. We have been together for 8 years and he has been the stepfather to my 3 children since they were of very young ages. 18 months, 5 years and 9 years old. They are now 10, 14 and 18 years old.
All we want is for him to be legal and be able to go to work.
Thanks