toonarmy9752 wrote:
Out of interest Amos what exactly is involved in gaining the MEU3? - what advantages if any does it confer? - what is required to apply for one? and finally what is involved in renewing it?
thanks
I can only relate what I have read about it, basically the requirements are similar to what we aliens have to provide for a pink slip, proof of income, health care insurance, and so on.
The British High Commissioner recently suggested that British Expats should apply for an MEU3
if they qualified for it by having had their MEU1 yellow slip for at least 5 years.
MEU1 is valid for life, and is a Registration Certificate.
He clearly commented on guesswork. Suggesting that with Brexit the MEU1 would be no longer valid.
The MEU3 is a Permanent Residence Permit.
Hence the rush to apply for MEU3s. The Immigration Dept stated this was not needed, and would cause delays to other work in their Dept.
We now know from yesterday's agreement UK<>EU that the BHC was wrong, and immigration right.
I was one of many normal customers of the immigration Dept to have been inconvenienced
by all this, facing delays to my annual renewal of pink slips for me and my dear wife.
Others equally inconvenienced are British expats applying for MEU1s in the normal way, also now delayed applications.
The bottom line of all this being that MEU3s are not needed if you have an MEU1, in order to stay living here after "Brexit".
The ONLY advantage now for a British Expat holding a valid MEU1 in applying for an MEU3
is that it would allow him after Brexit to move to and reside in another of the 27 EU Member States.
Amos.