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Originally Posted by izzysmum04
This isn't true anymore. You don't have the automatic right to live and work in the UK just because you are married to a Brit. Unfortunately, you don't get that right until the government approves your visa. With a civil partnership or marriage, you must first apply for FLR (Further Leave to Remain), which is for a 2 year probationary period. You then must apply for LTR (Leave to Remain) within 28 days of the FLR expiring. You also must now pass a KOL (Knowlege of Life in the UK) test before you can even apply for LTR.
Badly Drawn Girl, I don't forsee any problems at all with you receiving FLR. As long as you are straightforward and truthful with them, you shouldn't have any problems. One thing I will recommend to you, once you receive it and are living over here....begin to prepare yourself for the ILR you will apply for in 2 years. Make sure you have your name on a bank account, try to have your name attached to your council tax, register for a doctor at your local surgery, have your name put on some utility bills, etc. The reason for this is because when you apply for ILR, they require you to have 20 different pieces of mail addressed to you/ or jointly to you and your partner from the past 2 years. I had a bit more because I tried to save a piece of mail per month. This is to prove you have been living together for the 2 year probationary period. They won't take just any pieces of mail...they must be from official sources. So start collecting as soon as you can once you move and get settled.
Good luck with everything! I am certain you will have your shiny new visa in your passport in no time.
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You do have the right to live and work with your spouse if he/she is an EU national,
it is an EEA (European Economic Area) treaty, this is prominently explained in the Home Office website and any relevant documentation. I can't imagine Brits are discriminated against in their own country, but one never knows
The right is automatic in the sense that is the only requisite you need in order to be allowed to settle in an EEA country.
Of course you have to probe it is not a marriage of convenience and that a real married relationship exists, which is the reason or the probation period, but during such period you are entitled to work and go in and out of the country.
What is news to me is the exam for LTR, I received my LTR a couple of years ago and at no point an exam was mentioned, so this must be quite a fairly new development ( I know that when you apply for British citizenship you have now to pass an exam, so maybe the exam you mentioned was introduced more less at the same time).