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My life partner is an EU citizen (Italian passport); she was born in Uruguay and we live together with our son (one and a half year old) in Uruguay. We are relocating to Newcastle upon Tyne because she is accepting a job offer from a UK company there.

As I understand it, we must apply for an EEA Family Permit, with my son as a family member, and me as an extended family member because we are not married. Then a residence after we are more or less settled (before 6 months).

I have a few questions:

  1. Is the EEA Family Permit the correct way to go?

  2. If my son gets an Italian passport on time for the trip, does he need the EEA Family Permit?

  3. Do we need two applications, one for me and one for my son, or can the application include both?

  4. As I understand we must apply in person (after the online process) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, because there is no office in Montevideo. Is this correct?

  5. If my son must apply for the permit, must he come with me to Argentina? Must he be there for the application?

  6. Is our son's birth certificate proof enough of our relationship? If not, what additional documents should we provide to prove the partnership?

  7. What are the requirements for the documents presented (translation? Any official validation? Apostille?)

  8. Are there any additional documents we must provide with the application?

I understand these are a lot of questions but maybe some can be answered. I tried to contact the immigration office of the UK, even trying the paying service but they refuse my VISA card for some reason (works everywhere, Amazon, eBay, Paypal, etc).

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Is the EEA Family Permit the correct way to go?

Yes.

If my son gets the Italian Passport on time for the trip, does he need the EEA Family Permit?

Of course not. The EEA family permit is only for non-EEA family members of EEA nationals. As an Italian citizen, your son does not need an EEA family permit. Focus your efforts on getting the Italian passport instead.

Do we need two applications, One for me and one for my son, or can the application include both?

You would need two applications, but your son should get his Italian passport instead of the EEA family permit.

As I understand we must apply in person (after the online process) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, because there is no office in Montevideo; is this correct?

Perhaps not. The freedom of movement directive requires member states to "grant such persons every facility to obtain the necessary visas. Such visas shall be issued free of charge as soon as possible and on the basis of an accelerated procedure." This generally means that you cannot be required to pay a "processing fee" for the services of a third-party visa processor. It may also mean that you shouldn't be required to travel to Argentina. You should try asking the nearest consulate it will accept your application directly.

If my son must apply for the permit, must he come with me to Argentina? Must he be there for the application?

If you can't get his Italian passport in time then he probably has to visit. The consulate or the visa processing contractor can give you more details.

Is our son's birth certificate proof enough of our relationship? If not, what additional documents should we provide to prove the partnership?

What are the requirements for the documents presented (translation?, any official validation?,apostille?)

Are there any additional documents we must provide with the application?

If you are unmarried, and your partnership is not registered with any civil authority, include evidence to show that you have been living together for at least two years. (I suspect that it should not be necessary to prove this because you have a child together, but I cannot find any official guidance to support that suspicion. Having a child together should at least relieve you of the burden of providing additional evidence that that your relationship is genuine.)

If you have registered your partnership, include authenticated copies of the registration documents. If you are married, include an authenticated copy of your marriage certificate.

Regarding the requirements for certification and/or authentication, and more generally for information about what documents to include, see the guidance and the documents to which it links.

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  • Is it worth the OP getting married at this point? (Assuming both he and his partner are not already married by separated.) They are already in an indissoluble relationship (parents of their son), and being officially married might be simpler. OTOH the immigration authorities might dismiss it as a sham marriage.
    – Martin Bonner supports Monica
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 19:14
  • @MartinBonner the UK's own guidance states that "marriage of convenience" is not to be suspected where there is a child of the relationship. But I would be careful here: if they do marry specifically to make the application easier, they might nonetheless fall afoul of the definition in the regulations (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1052): "“marriage of convenience” includes a marriage entered into...as a means to circumvent...any other criteria that the party to the marriage of convenience would otherwise have to meet...to enjoy a right to reside under these Regulations..."
    – phoog
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 19:31
  • @phoog Do you have any info about question 7? We have a lot of documents to prove our relationship (we owned and sold an apartment a couple years back, we own the house we live in, utility bills with my name and her's for the same address, giga bytes of photos) we must translate everything? even utility bills? do they tend to disregard things if they don't match a certain presentation rules?
    – Sebastian Boccardi
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 18:31
  • @SebastianBoccardi Absolutely no idea I'm afraid. I'm a British ex-pat living in Germany with a British partner.
    – Martin Bonner supports Monica
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 18:35
  • @SebastianBoccardi they will certainly disregard any document that is not in English or Welsh. Perhaps you can save on translation costs by relying on photographs. Perhaps the utility bills don't add much to the documents showing your joint ownership of your residences.
    – phoog
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 20:36

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