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Hello all.

We found out that after all we do not need a family permit but a residence card for me to stay with my German wife who lives here since the last 25 years and works here in the UK through a visa consultancy. However they charge a hefty £825 to get the residence card when someone already told me that we can quite easily do this ourselves for £65!

However when I flew in from the States I came in via Dublin due to delayed flights from Chicago and was diverted through Dublin instead flying straight from Chicago to Manchester. As I am registered blind the border officer in Dublin stamped my passport then I was put on to the next available flight to Manchester. Once I landed in Manchester I was escorted off the plane straight through the immigration control but they never stamped my entry into the UK into my passport.

The question is now, we are ready to apply to the home office for the residence card but will my Passport with the Irish stamp make them wonder how I got into the UK? Would this make it difficult for us to obtain a residence card? If so, would it make a difference if I were to fly out from Manchester to say France to get stamped when coming back to the UK then apply for the residence card to be able to show that I got a UK stamp in my US passport?

Hope that someone could help me out to get some answers with this please as my tourist visa is running out in January and we would like to apply for the residence card before that.

Thank you.

Bronco wrote:Hello all.

We found out that after all we do not need a family permit but a residence card for me to stay with my German wife who lives here since the last 25 years and works here in the UK through a visa consultancy. However they charge a hefty £825 to get the residence card when someone already told me that we can quite easily do this ourselves for £65!

However when I flew in from the States I came in via Dublin due to delayed flights from Chicago and was diverted through Dublin instead flying straight from Chicago to Manchester. As I am registered blind the border officer in Dublin stamped my passport then I was put on to the next available flight to Manchester. Once I landed in Manchester I was escorted off the plane straight through the immigration control but they never stamped my entry into the UK into my passport.

The question is now, we are ready to apply to the home office for the residence card but will my Passport with the Irish stamp make them wonder how I got into the UK? Would this make it difficult for us to obtain a residence card? If so, would it make a difference if I were to fly out from Manchester to say France to get stamped when coming back to the UK then apply for the residence card to be able to show that I got a UK stamp in my US passport?

Hope that someone could help me out to get some answers with this please as my tourist visa is running out in January and we would like to apply for the residence card before that.

Thank you.

HO & UKVI will understand you transferred to UK from Dublin as UK & Eire form the common travel area or CTA.

Many people apply for RC without aid of a solicitor or agency; no need to pay a fat fee.
A RC merely confirms status it doesn't confer it &, as such, a RC is optional.

However, if you came into UK on a tourist visa you will be expected to leave UK by its expiry (if not before).
What was actually stamped into your passport?

Thank you for your answers.

I just received the normal entry stamp for six months in my passport.

I also was told by the consultancies that the home office will keep my passport once the RC application has been put in and therefore I do not need to leave the country once the six months are up as long as I do the application before that.

I will try to do the RC myself and hope that everything will work out fine.