EEA Family Permit: How to bring your partner to the UK, if you are EU Citizen

An EEA Family Permit is visa category issued to non-EEA nationals living outside the European Union and who would like to travel to the UK with an EEA national family member or join an EEA national family member (wife; husband; parents; sister or brother etc) in the UK.

Main eligibility requirements for an EEA Family Permit

• Applicant is a citizen of a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA);
• Applicant’s family member is an EEA national (but normally not British);
• Applicant is related to the EEA national in one of the following ways:

• Applicant is the family member of the EEA national such as their husband, wife, civil or unmarried partner, parent, grandparent, child or grandchild; or
• Applicant is an extended family member of the EEA national, for example their unmarried partner in a durable relationship, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc.; or
• Applicant is the main carer of a British citizen or a child who is an EEA national;

• Applicant’s EEA national family member is travelling with you to the UK; or
• Applicant’s family member is in the UK and, if they have lived in the UK for more than three months, is exercising Treaty rights as a worker, self-employed person, student, self-sufficient person, or as a jobseeker.

An EEA Family Permit is valid for six months.

EEA Family Permit holders are free to leave and enter the UK as many times as they wish within that six-month period.

There is no fee payable to apply for an EEA Family Permit and the application will be given priority by UK Visas & Immigration.

At the end of the six-month period as an EEA Family Permit holder, applicant may be eligible to apply for an EEA Residence Card as confirmation of applicant’s right of residence in the UK.

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