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The key premise of the EEA PR application is: if an EEA national has resided for a continuous period of 5 years in the UK as a qualified person, they have acquired permanent residence in the UK. A qualified person means that such an individual is exercising treaty rights. Treaty rights are defined as either a job seeker, a worker, self-employed, self-sufficient or a student. They can all be combined or simply one of these types (see below) of treaty right can be exercised.
As mentioned earlier, permanent residency in the UK for EEA nationals entail that such an EEA national must be a qualified person, exercising treaty rights in the UK. If an EEA national has a family member, which includes spouses or extended family members (durable partners), they too can make an application for Permanent Residence if the European national exercises his or her treaty rights. Exercise of treaty rights involves the following.
Continuous residence of 5 years
A key factor in qualifying for PR, is the continuous residence for at least 5 years in the UK as a qualified person (as defined above). Importantly, the 5 year period does not have to be the last 5 year period. Any 5 year period as a qualified person automatically qualifies you as having obtained permanent residence status in the UK, and so your current status may not have bearing to the application if you can show that you have retrospectively exercised treaty rights for 5 years.
The good thing about this rule is that whether you have applied for it or not, if you, as an EEA national have stayed in the UK for 5 years as a qualified person you automatically obtained permanent residence in the UK, regardless of whether you have applied for the card or any document to confirm it nor not. Let's give an example to put this into perspective; if your parents are both British born in London and you, like your parent was also born in London, you do not need to apply to a British passport to be British. You are automatically British in law. But if you want to go on holiday, you need a passport and you need to show that you are British at the airport, so you can come back into the country. You will then need to apply for a British passport. This is the same with permanent residence. You may not have physical evidence that you are a permanent residence card holder, but in the eyes of law, where your true immigration status is the primary focus, you hold Permanent Residence. For the sake of travel, employer and alike, Permanent Residence is a must.
Our European law experts boast of over 30 years of experience in immigration law; we are able to advice you on all matters of the European law including permanent residence applications.
After Brexit, we have now dedicate a full team of lawyers to help with permanent residence applications. What we do is simple, we access if you qualify for a permanent residence card or not, then we prepare a list of document we believe you would need to support your application, and we basically take it up from you from there. Give us a call today for a free assessment on 020 3439 9270 or drop us an email on info@reissedwards.com; and one of our immigration lawyers will contact you as soon they become available.
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The first question i would like to ask is what nationality are you and what is your current immigration status in the UK? You may either be a British national, a settled person or a visa national. The applications you can make for your parent would depend on your current immigration status.
You mentioned that you have lived in the UK for more than 10 years, this suggests that you may qualify for permanent residence if you are a visa national.
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As we are regulated advisers it is not in our or even your best interest if we simply do the form filling for you. It is better for both of us if we have to go through your documents. We normally send our clients a list of documents they need to show to evidence thier case as part of thier application. If this is something you are happy with, we are more than happy to go through the process. However if this is not the case, we may not be able to simply fill forms for you.
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My name I am currently on a residence card of an EEA family member which I have held for the past 4 years due to expire soon but the relationship between me and my EEA national has broken I need advice on how to renew the permit now
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From your enquiry, it appears that you are looking at applying for a UK Permanent residence card. As an EU national, you do not qualify for anything because you have lived in the UK for 3 years. You have to have lived in the UK for over 5 years; in that period you must also have either been working, self employed, self sufficient or studying.
Unfortunately, you do not qualify for permanent residence at this stage.
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This enquiry has been dealt with in a private email by one of our EEA immigration experts
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