No status in the UK/Visa expired? Living with your UK/EEA partner/spouse? We can help you get legal! For those irregular entrants/overstayers, who live with EEA(EU) partners/spouses. You can benefit from provision of the Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2006, which require the British Embassies/High Commissions to immediately issue EEA Family Permits to non EEA-spouses or non-EEA long term unmarried partners (2 or more years of cohabitation) of EEA citizens. That means that although you may have overstayed your visa or came to the UK with no visa as such, your private life is protected and safeguarded by the provisions of the above-mentioned Regulations and the British Overseas Missions must immediately issue you with the corresponding EEA Family Permit, which is initially valid for 6 months, but could be extended. The fact that you have been illegally in the UK is actually back up your claim that your relationship is genuine. The EEA/EU is quite complex but you and your partner can benefit from it. Do talk to our lawyers so we could assist and represent you and your partner so you could enjoy your legal and lawful family life in the UK. For those irregular entrans/overstayers, who live with British partners/spouses In most cases you are required to leave the UK if you have no legal status. In some cases, though, the law allows you to stay in the UK and regularize your status in the UK without leaving the UK under DP3/96 directive. Please note, though, that it may take some time and quite an effort to win a case under DP3/96, so if you are in a hurry and wish to regularize your status quickly, it is recommended that you consider a return to your country of habitual residence and lodging your fiancé(e) or spouse application to the nearest British Embassy/High Commission. The choice is yours. Do talk to our lawyers so we could assist and represent you and your partner so you could enjoy your legal and lawful family life in the UK. |