Here you can find information on how to bring your family into the UK, residence cards and family resident stamps.

If you have a right to live the in the UK, your family may join you. Your family is defined as:

• your spouse or civil partner
• children or grandchildren of you, your spouse or your civil partner who are under 21 years of age or who are dependent upon you
• the parents or grandparents of you, your spouse or your civil partner

If you are a student, only your spouse or civil partner and dependent children are entitled to a right of residence.

The UK Border Agency website explains how European and non-European citizens and members of their family can enter, live in and work in the UK.  Visit the websites below for more information.

Visit the UK Border Agency for more information on bringing your family into the UK if you are a European citizen.
 

Visit the UK Border Agency website for more information on bringing your family into the UK if you are not a European citizen.

Residence cards

Family members who come to the UK with an EEA national but who are not themselves a national of an EEA country can apply for a residence card, with some exceptions (see Family member residence stamp section). The card confirms that person's right of residence under European law. Residence cards are normally valid for five years and take the form of an endorsement that is placed in the holder's passport. Applications for a residence card should be made using application form EEA2.

Visit the UK Border Agency website to download a residence card application (EEA2).

Family member residence stamp

Residence cards are not immediately available to all family members. Family members who are not nationals of an EEA country and who are in the UK with a national of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia or Slovenia are not eligible to apply for a residence card until the national citizen of those countries has been employed continuously in the UK for 12 months. After the worker completes 12 months of work in the UK, their family member who is not an EEA national can apply for a family member residence stamp to confirm his/her right of residence under European law. Applications for a family member residence stamp should be made using application form FMRS.

Visit the UK Border Agency website to download a family member residence stamp form (FMRS).