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should enclose a pre-paid self-addressed Royal Mail Special Delivery or Recorded Signed For Deliveryenvelope with your application. The pre-paid self-addressed envelope should be sufficient toaccommodate the size and weight of your documents and be insured to the appropriate level for thevalue of your documents. If this is not enclosed your documents will be returned to you using RoyalMail 2nd class post. Please consult Royal Mail’s website at www.royalmail.com for further information.9. Decision Times• For information on the current processing times for applications for a permanent residence cardon form EEA4, see the ‘Service standards’ page on the UK Visas and Immigration website:www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/about-our-services.10. Contacting Us After You Have AppliedIf you need to contact us after you have applied, please do so as instructed below.To send us more information about your application, write to the address in part 8 and give thefollowing details in your letter:• The applicant’s full name, date of birth and nationality• Any Recorded or Special Delivery number• The date on which the application was posted or made in person• The Home Office reference number if you have one.We generally advise that you should not make any travel plans until we have returned yourpassport. If you need your passport because you have to travel urgently and unexpectedly, use thereturn of documents request form at https://www.gov.uk/visa-documents-returned.11. Obtaining Another FormYou can obtain all the EEA application forms via the UK Visas and Immigration website:www.gov.uk/visas-immigration12. Your Right To Reside In The UKEEA nationals have a right to reside in the UK for longer than 3 months if they are exercising aTreaty right in one of the following ways:• Worker• Self-employed• Student• Economically self-sufficient (including retired people)• Jobseeker• IncapacitatedEEA4 Permanent Residence Card Version 06/2014 - page 8 of 38
The following nationals may exercise Treaty rights in the UK:Austria Iceland Belgium Irish Republic Romania**Bulgaria** Italy Cyprus* Latvia*** Slovakia***Croatia**** Liechtenstein Denmark Lithuania*** Slovenia***Czech Republic*** Luxembourg Finland Malta SpainEstonia*** Netherlands Germany Norway SwedenFranceGreecePoland*** Hungary*** Portugal Switzerland (but see part 1of these notes)* A document issued by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus does not establish that theperson is an EEA national. Only a document issued by the Republic of Cyprus stating that theholder is a national of the Republic of Cyprus establishes that the person is an EEA nationaland accordingly entitled to free movement within the European Union (EU).** Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on 1 January 2007. Nationals of Bulgaria and Romaniawho wished to work in the UK before 1 January 2014 were required to hold an accessionworker authorisation document, unless exempt.If you are applying for a permanent residence card and your continuous 5-year period ofresidence in the UK in accordance with the regulations includes a period when your EEAnational family member was required to hold a valid accession worker authorisation document,you must provide evidence of this as stated in section 11. If you do not, you will not be issuedwith a permanent residence card.*** From 1 May 2004 until 30 April 2011 nationals of Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (known as A8 countries) who wished toexercise their Treaty rights in the UK as a worker were required to register their employmentunder the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) for a period of 12 months unless they wereexempt.If you are applying for a permanent residence card and your continuous 5-year period of residencein the UK in accordance with the regulations includes a period when your EEA nationalfamily member was required to be registered on WRS then you must provide evidence of thisas stated in section 11. If you cannot show that they were registered as required then you willnot be issued a permanent residence card.Alien passports are issued to persons of Russian origin who moved to the Baltic States,Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, when they were part of the former Soviet Union. They are notregarded as being citizens and therefore the Estonian, Lithuanian, and Latvian authoritiesissue them with alien passports.Although they look very similar, alien passports are not proof of EEA nationality.**** Croatia joined the EU on 1 July 2013. Guidance and application forms for Croatian nationalscan be found at: https://www.gov.uk/croatian-national.13. Other EEA FormsThe other EEA forms are:EEA1 for registration certificate applications by EEA nationals and their EEA national familymembers.EEA4 Permanent Residence Card Version 06/2014 - page 9 of 38
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