EEA APPLICATION CHECKLIST

Please read through this form and tick to indicate that you have provided the necessary supporting information with this form. Please note that we must see original documents not copies. The checklist is not definitive, and we may request additional evidence or arrange to interview you to confirm that you satisfy the regulations. Our EEA guidance notes, which you can download at www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/applicationforms/eea/guide-eea.pdf, contain detailed information about the evidence required. If you do not provide the evidence necessary to support your application under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, your application will be returned to you so that you can gather together all the necessary evidence before re-sending it to us. No further action will be taken on your case in the meanwhile.

PROOF OF IDENTITY 2 x passport-sized photographs for each applicant detailed on this application. ...................... Valid original passport of each applicant. (Your national identity card is also acceptable, if you are an EEA or Swiss national.) ........................................................................................ Additional requirements for non-EEA nationals: Your EEA or Swiss national sponsors valid original passport or national identity card .... Proof of your relationship to your EEA or Swiss national sponsor (for example, marriage or civil partnership certificate, or birth certificate)............................................... Unmarried partners: If you are living with a partner who is not your spouse or civil partner, you must provide evidence that you are in a durable relationship with them. You should ideally demonstrate that you have been living together for at least 2 years. (Generally you can meet this requirement by providing joint bank or building society statements, joint tenancy agreements, council tax bills or evidence that you are both paying utility bills at the property where you reside.) ................................................

PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY The following sections indicate the evidence that you must provide to show that you are a qualified person. Please indicate how you as an EEA national are (or how your EEA national sponsor supporting your application is) exercising treaty rights in the UK, and supply the documentary proof indicated. Worker Proof of employment. ....................................................................................................... This can be: recent payslips (dated within 6 weeks of your application being sent to us); or a letter from the employer confirming employment; or a contract of employment; or (if applying for permanent residence) P60s/P45s to show your periods of employment. Additional requirement for nationals of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia or Slovenia: Evidence that you have completed 12 months on the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS cards and certificates)....................................................................................... Self-employed Evidence of registration for National Insurance and tax purposes as a self-employed person (HM Revenue & Customs confirmation). .............................................................. Accountants letters. ......................................................................................................... Customer invoices and testimonials. ................................................................................ Bank statements indicating earnings. ............................................................................... or, if applying for permanent residence: Evidence that you have been self-employed for 5 years, such as certified accounts. ....... HM Revenue & Customs self-assessment statements of account........................................ Economically self-sufficient Evidence that there are sufficient funds to maintain yourself and any family members included in your application during your intended stay in the UK on this basis................. This can be: bank statements; and/or evidence of the employment or self-employment of any of your family members legally working and residing in the UK with you (see the Worker and Selfemployed lists above). Evidence that you have comprehensive sickness insurance for yourself and for all family members whose right to reside in the UK is dependent on your right to do so. . ..............

Student A school/college/university letter confirming enrolment on a course of study and the course dates. .................................................................................................................... Confirmation that you have sufficient financial resources to support you while studying.. Evidence that you have comprehensive sickness insurance. ........................................... Jobseeker Evidence that you have registered as a jobseeker with the relevant employment office. . Evidence that you are seeking employment (such as job applications and acknowledgements) and that you have a genuine chance of being engaged in employment (such as evidence of job interviews). ........................................................... Retired Evidence that you are in receipt of a pension. .................................................................. Evidence that you were employed or self-employed in the UK for at least 12 months prior to retirement (see the Worker and Self-employed lists above).............................. Evidence (such as tenancy agreements, utility bills and bank statements) that you lived in the UK for at least 3 years continuously before you retired. ................................. Ceased employment as a result of permanent incapacity Evidence that you are permanently incapacitated, in the form of a doctors letter or medical report confirming incapacity. This document should include details of whether the incapacity is likely to be permanent. Please note that a GPs letter alone is insufficient for this purpose. ..................................................................................................................... Evidence that: you resided in the UK for more than 2 years prior to ceasing work or selfemployment (tenancy agreements, utility bills or bank statements); or ................. the incapacity was as a result of an accident at work or an occupational disease that entitles you to a pension payable in full or in part by an institution in the UK (a letter from your previous employer and evidence that the pension is being paid). ........................................................................................................

PROOF OF DEPENDENCY If there are other dependants on the application, you will need to provide the following information to support their application. Direct family members (children and grandchildren over 21 and direct relatives in the ascending line parents and grandparents of an EEA or Swiss national, or of an EEA or Swiss nationals husband, wife or civil partner) Evidence that the EEA or Swiss national or their husband/wife/civil partner has sufficient funds to maintain the applicant, and that the applicant is, in practice, reliant on these funds to meet their needs (for example, bank statements and evidence of money transfers)...............................................................................................................
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More distant relatives (such as cousins, nephews and nieces) Evidence that: the EEA or Swiss national was maintaining the applicant before the applicants admission to the UK and continues to do so (for example, bank statements and evidence of money transfers); or .................................................................... the applicant was a member of the EEA or Swiss nationals household in the country from which they have recently come, and that they are members of the same household in the UK (for example, joint bank or building society statements, joint tenancy agreements, council tax bills or other evidence that the parties share and have shared the same address) ...........................................................

RETAINING A RIGHT OF RESIDENCE IN THE UK The 2006 European Regulations have provision to allow non-EEA nationals to retain their right to reside in the UK if their relationship with the EEA national sponsor has been ended by death, departure from the UK or legal process (such as divorce). Evidence of the EEA nationals qualifying status before the relationship ended (see Proof of eligibility above) ........................................................................................ Evidence of the former relationship (see Proof of relationship above) ........................... Evidence that the applicant continues to pursue activity as a worker, as a self-employed person, as a student (if they are a direct descendant child or grandchild of a deceased EEA national), or as a carer of such a student (if the student is a child), or is self-sufficient (see Proof of eligibility above) ........................... Additional requirement if the EEA national sponsor has died: Death certificate. ......................................................................................................... Additional requirements if the applicant is the former husband, wife or civil partner of an EEA national and the relationship has ended in divorce or dissolution of the civil partnership: Evidence that: the relationship had lasted for at least 3 years (the marriage or civil partnership and divorce or dissolution certificates); and .................................. the parties lived in the UK for at least one of those 3 years (evidence of residence, such as utility bills addressed to the parties during the relevant period). ............................................................................................................. or Evidence that the applicant has custody of the child of an EEA national (court order or approved agreement) ................................................................................... or Evidence that the applicant has court-ordered access rights in the UK to the child of an EEA national (court order) ................................................................................. or Evidence that a continued right of residence is warranted by particularly difficult circumstances such as domestic violence (police report or other evidence of difficult circumstances as appropriate to the case)......................................................
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