Hello
Hope you could help.
I am EEA national, trying to bring my cousins (non EEA) to live permanently with me in the UK. I have been taking care of them since they mum passed away 2 years ago. Sending western union to my grandmother every month as they live with her. Our grandmother is old and therefore getting ill. I would like them to settle down with me.
We have been refused twice EEA FP. I have appeal the first refusal so currently waiting. But on our second application, the grounds of refusals were:
1) You have applied for an EEA Family Permit to settle with your sponsor, xxxx, whom you state is your cousin and who is French national, in the UK. However having reviewed the documents submitted with your application, I am not satisfied that you are genuinely related to your sponsor as claimed. In support of your application you have submitted both your and your sponsor’s original birth certificates. No other documents have been submitted in support of this relationship to show that the parties are related, know each other or have ever met. In addition I note your birth certificate was issued on 18/10/2011, more than 15 years after your birth. I am also aware of the process involved in obtaining a birth certificate in Nigeria, which consists of giving a verbal record to a register of your date of birth and parent’s names. No other documents are required to register a birth. In the absence of additional supporting documents I am therefore not satisfied that you are an extended family member in accordance with Regulation 8 of immigration (European Economic Area) Regulation 2006.
What other documents to include? We included an explanation letter explaining family link. With original of all the birth certificates; my self (EEA national), my parents, my cousins and their parents and my grand mother (declaration of age made in court).
We also included a guardianship declaration from my grandmother made in court.
Would you be able to advise what other possible documents I can include? Do we need to go and do blood test?
2) You state you are financially dependent on your sponsor. As evidence of this dependency you have submitted a number of money transfer receipts in support of your application. However, I note a number of these money transfer receipts show the received as yyyyyy. You have not provided documents to establish who this person is or how you are related to them. The other transfer receipts show funds transferred from your sponsor to your grandmother. However, there is no evidence to suggest that these funds are ever transferred to you, or that you are therefore wholly financially dependent on your EEA national sponsor. Therefore I am not satisfied that you meet the requirements of Regulation 7 of the EEA Regulations 2006.
I therefore refuse your EEA family permit application because I am not satisfied that you meet all the requirements of Regulation 12 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006.
We included an explanation letter, informing the ECO that my grandmother is old (that is why I am bringing over the kids). Sometimes she is not well enough to collect the money herself, I therefore sometimes send the money to her nephew who would collect on her behalf. It was clearly explained in the supporting documents.
These children are living with our grandmother, who is not working and do not receive any pension. This again was state in the application with explanation letter and court guardianship statement.
My cousins and grandmother live at the same address.
I honestly don't know how else to proof the money sent to my grandmother is to look after herself and the kids. And therefore the kids are wholly financially dependant on me
My feeling is the ECO didn't read the file through otherwise he/she wouldn't refuse our application on these grounds.
Is any of you able to help and could provide suggestions?
Many thanks
keke
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