LOST PASSPORT

[Masterixas]

Hi guys,

My wife who is a Russian citizen and registered with the home office with a valid stamp for 5 years residence as a wife of an European Citizen (me), lost her passport this week.

She will do a new passport with the Russian Embassy in London, but my question is when this passport comes will have no immigration stamp so I guess we need to inform the home office or Board Agency. I want to know what documetns we will need and if she can with me go down to Croydon and get the stamp straight away since she is already registered and we still have the papers sent by the home office saying that she had been registered. I would assume the Home office holds her information.

Can we get her stamp quick or is that another 6 months wait?
Can we do it in person, or we need to fill out a form again and send it by mail as it was for the first time?
Will the new stamp reflect on the time she is already here, or will reset all to level zero and she will wait again a new 5 years until be able to apply for UK permanent residence?

Thanks guys

[thsths]

Can we get her stamp quick or is that another 6 months wait?

I am afraid you have to start a new application. You can only apply by mail, and it currently takes about 9 (!) months.

Will the new stamp reflect on the time she is already here, or will reset all to level zero and she will wait again a new 5 years until be able to apply for UK permanent residence?

The stamp will be valid for another 5 years, but the time to PR started when you got married (if you were both in the UK at the time).

[Masterixas]

So considering we have flights booked to Russia for June the 1st, are you telling me that they are lost because the immigration has not an emergency system or at least an in person service to sort this kind of problems for people already registered? Not even a parole or a document which will temporaly allow my wife to leave and enter the UK?

[JAJ]

There is under the U.K. Immigration Rules, but the EEA rules are different.

Are you also a British citizen?

[Masterixas]

Hi JAJ:

Although I'm here more than 5 years I still an EEA citizen. What about this?

When my wife first came to join me in the UK she applied for an entry EEA family permit visa (valid for 6 months) in the British Embassy in Russia. When she gets her new passport, if we fly to Russia and before we come back we go to the Birtish embassy again in Russia (St Petersburg) and apply again for an entry as a wife of an EEA national, would that work? I mean I know she would be able to enter, but would the embassy there give her that entry again? I mean we are married, we have a 3 year kid togheter, bank account in both names, she even got the letter from the Home office confiming when she got her residence to stay and as a wife of and EEA national. Even copies of her residence permit from the old passport she has.

I just think this can still be sorted here int he UK. If all ways are locked and our holiday ruined I would be very disappointed. I mean anyone can lose a document it should not be the end of the world. I'm quite astonished (although I haven't yet talked to the respective authorites) that there's no backups for this. What if it was something even more serious such as a detah of a parent and she needed to go as quick as tomorrow?

I just can't believe UK immigration is so behind! I used to be what they call over there in US an alien and before I got my permanent residence they issued me a parole to fly to europe to see my father who suddenly went badly sick.

Only today we found out her passport was missing so obviously I will start to call everywhere on monday, but you guys responses make me fear the worse, and if true it's just unbelivable. Something so simple as going down to croydon, they can check up her identidy and mine and put a new stamp on a new passport. 9 months for that? It just can't be true

Do you or anyone knows if we get a chance of being heard if we go to the home office in person expose our problem? I'm thinking in going as soon as she gets the new pasport and take all docs we have of her residence here in the UK.