Eea3 waiting time 2012

Coffee10 · Post by **Coffee10** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:38 pm

Eea3 sent 28 june 2012
Ho rcvd 29 june
and still waiting.
Anyone currently waiting for eea3 & wants to share experience? How long it takes nowadays? Thx

anp · Post by **anp** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:01 am

See our timeline below.

As of last friday, I was told that our applications have not been validated yet.

Nira · Post by **Nira** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:43 am

My husband's EEA3 application sent 17/09/2012
Received by UKBA 18/09/2012

Waiting for PR...

Please, if anyone have received PR recently, post your timeline.

AndreeaS · Post by **AndreeaS** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:26 am

Hi all

I have been constantly checking this thread and I found it very useful to read about your waiting times / EEA3 experience.

I just got my PR certificate following my EEA3 application and I am happy to share my timeline:
- sent to HO 29/08
- received by HO 30/08
- got all docs back 27/09, PR issued 20/09

Good luck to you all!!

Nira · Post by **Nira** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:23 pm

Very nice! Congratulations! So there is a hope that most EAA3 applications are done within 1 month now.

rainbow11 · Post by **rainbow11** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:25 pm

EEA3 & EEA4 sent on 10 April 2012
Received by UKBA on 11 April 12
COA for EEA4 received on 27 July 12
EEA3 PR received on 27 July 12 (dated 19 July 12)
EEA4 PR received on 6 October 12 (dated 29 September 2012)

imraniqbal2010 · Post by **imraniqbal2010** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:06 pm

Coffee10 wrote:Eea3 sent 28 june 2012
Ho rcvd 29 june
and still waiting.
Anyone currently waiting for eea3 & wants to share experience? How long it takes nowadays? Thx

Hi Coffee,

Did you get your documents back?? Any update????

pele · Post by **pele** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:10 am

I sent mine on28/8/2012, HO received the next day and i didnt hear from them yet. Im just wondering whether i should call them now to check the progress

Nira · Post by **Nira** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:44 pm

Any updates? My husband is waiting for 2 months already. HO does not reply even to his complaint

boloney · Post by **boloney** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:37 pm

Nira wrote:Any updates? My husband is waiting for 2 months already. HO does not reply even to his complaint

my brother applied end of july and he received his pr 9/11. So it was just over 3 months waiting for it.

boloney · Post by **boloney** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:39 pm

pele wrote:I sent mine on28/8/2012, HO received the next day and i didnt hear from them yet. Im just wondering whether i should call them now to check the progress

leave it. They have a lot time left. If anything call them and ask for your passport back. That may spped it up. Otherwise just leave it and wait. Is there any reason you need it asap?

yoshi_jp · Post by **yoshi_jp** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:16 pm

My other half has just received hers.

EEA3 application posted on 15/10/2012
Received by UKBA on 16/10/2012
Request for return of ID card sent on 23/11/2012
PR certificate received on 28/11/2012 (issued on 14/11/2012)

Nationality: Polish (WRS done)
Basis: work, job-seeker, job-seeker + trainee (simultaneously)

She de-registered herself at the job centre when she became an unpaid trainee in a small company which eventually took her up as a full time employee, so her boss wrote a statement saying that she was a trainee in view of gaining employment.

She has been a full time student till now, but has never had any CSI, so we had to prove that she had been qualified as per the Directive by other means i.e. full-time or part-time worker, job-seeker, etc.

Her company went bankrupt after the PR application, by the way.

Now, I have to wait for my never-ending Tier 1 (General) extension process.

Coffee10 · Post by **Coffee10** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:41 pm

Eea3 i recived my pr september 13 .took 2.5 months.good luck and be patient if you can

nata2406 · Post by **nata2406** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:23 pm

We received our PR today and I am happy to share the timeline with you:

EEA3/EEA4 sent 24 July 2012
Received by HO 25th July
PR for EEA3 and PR for EEA4 received 04 December 2012.

Hope everyone, who is still waiting, will get their PR's soon, good luck!

Tyro · Post by **Tyro** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:15 pm

Hello Everyone,

we have sent EEA3 for my wife last month. but have not received COA. But this is not the main problem. Please advise us on following.

Her nationality is Cypriot. We supplied following documents. Just wondering if we have included everything needed.

1. EEA3 Form + Her Passport + Covering Letter + 2 passport size photographs
2. Proof of self employment ( Tax return form for last year, 4-5 recent invoices+ Her personal account statements as she receives business payments in her personal account: will that be a problem?). Also sent NI bills.
3. Employer reference letters for three Jobs + pay slips for one job where she didn't have any ref. letter and confirmation email print out for the fifth job where she didn't have any payslip or reference, as it was temporary Job for 7 weeks: will that be a problem?)
4. 5 years council tax bills
5. Email from recruitment agencies for the time she was unemployed and not registered as job seeker.

thought to share as there may be other people in same situation where they didn't register with job centre and were looking for jobs through job agencies.

Could someone with more experience please check this list and advise if we stand a chance of getting a PR For her.

Many Thanks

dayana173 · Post by **dayana173** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:22 pm

EEA3 send 28/11/12
Issued on 16/01/13
Received on 29/01/13

Good luck to those who still wait and I want to thank the forum for all the help for preparing my application.

zaraboy · Post by **zaraboy** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:06 pm

wow that's fantastic! i am really curious as to the nationality of posters. my cynical side suspects a national hierarchy of priority when dealing with cases. i personally hold a bulgarian passport. eea3 posted aug 8 2012, not sure when received but i assume not long after since i posted it by recorded mail. asked for return of passport mid september, it came within a week with instructions not to send back until ukba asked for it. i sent it back to them soon after anyway.

many months later i am still waiting for ILR. getting cake and candles ready for this friday feb 8 to mark 6 happy months that have cost me a very attractive job offer (through inability to prove uk work eligibility) and a lot of nerves.

should monday feb 11 roll around with no results, i'll be making my polite call to the ladies and gents manning the switchboard of the bureaucracy.

hang in there fellas. what else is there to do!

Nira · Post by **Nira** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:39 pm

I can finally post some great news here:
We have just received my husband's PR.
Here is our timeline:

EEA3 application sent 17/09/2012
Received by UKBA 18/09/2012
PR issued 28/01/2013
Received 07/02/2013

Good luck to everyone and thanks for your support here!

Flamenko2 · Post by **Flamenko2** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:32 am

Have anyone been waiting longer than 6 months?
EEA3 application sent 07/09/2012
Received by UKBA 10/09/2012
Have called UKBA several times after 6 months period, they are not able to tell you anything. Have sent few letters - no response. Have requested my passport back, hoping that it would speed up the process. Passport have arrived today with a note 'Please do not return your Passport to home Office until it has been requested by a caseworker' which means that they are not going to process my application anytime soon.
If anyone knows what to do please help. Another 2 weeks and I can mark 8 months waiting. My case is really straightforward, EEA national, have been in the same job for over 6 years.

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