Applications by EU Citizens

Family members of EEA citizens enjoy the right of admission to the UK without leave to enter or remain to provide they can prove their relationship to an EEA citizen. Normally, this will be done through a passport and an EEA family permit, family residence card, or permanent residence card.

Member states are compelled to give a person claiming to be a family member without these documents every reasonable opportunity to obtain the relevant documents, have them brought to him or her, or to prove by other means that he or she is indeed a family member. Family members enjoy the same right of initial residence for a period of three months as EEA citizens (without the right to be accompanied by family members).