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EEA QP - UK Resident Card Timeline Process

Most frequently question bout EEA QP - UK Resident Card Timeline Process
How long the process??

Just a reminder that each individual is different, Its depends on your documents, application and luck.
Don’t be panic if your application is longer than it should be, you might trapped on busiest time or another reasons. But here my timeline process...

European Passport Return Service

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What is European Passport Return Service ??

(The Bold quote is from the gov.uk site)
“The European passport return service allows you and your family to take your passports to a participating local authority for verification and copying, and for the local authority to then send the copy to the Home Office.” 
So guys, when you apply for EEA Certificate or EEA Family Member Resident Card, you DON’T HAVE TO send your original passports. You can keep it back with you.
Am a bit freakout when i knew that my friend didn’t get her passport back from the Home Office after her application, she got pretty headache to sort it out. Yes Home Office will take the original passport for a long time, it might takes from 6 months or more (through your application process). It means we cannot go anywhere. Big NO!! Plus, it is hard to track the application progress, you can’t ring the Home Office, quite difficult, they won’t give you a clue, you just have to wait.

EEA QP and UK Resident Card / Biometric Resident Permit

Morning mates.. Hope everyone doing well. Its been agess that i writing here. Abandoned !! Lols. Right, here i am, thinking about some request from my readers to write bout UK Resident Card or known as Biometric Resident Permit (BRP). How to apply it ?? 

This is based on my experience, it might help you through the darkest of UK documents time. I know i know, kinda Bloody Hell, be patient and be informed, you can do it !!

Please read before asking me the same questions.
Here I applied as EEA Family Member.
I am Indonesian (Non EEA Citizen) and my husband is Italian (EEA Citizen).
First, Breath easy 🤗 It will took a looong wayyy winding road (am Half Joking)
Note!! Do Not Wait till your EEA Family Permit Visa Expired !! If you got 6 months of UK - EEA Family Visa, apply for Resident Card (RC) at least 3 months before your Visa Expired. Example, your visa is valid til June 2018, you should apply for Resident Card at least on March 2018. I recommend this, as my Resident Card Application took 3 months of process, kinda frustrating me as i applied it one week before my visa expired. Lol. Nothing happened, do not worry, but you can’t do anything that requires your documents as it’s already expired. So do it long before your visa expired.