Form EEA4 - UK Border Agency - the Home Office

Section 7 – Details Of The Exercise Of Treaty Rights For 5 YearsTo qualify for permanent residence, your EEA national family member must normally have exercisedTreaty rights in the UK for a continuous period of five years through employment, self-employment,study or economic self-sufficiency (including retirement). If your EEA national family memberstopped working or being self-employed due to early retirement, reaching state pension age orpermanent incapacity, or if you have retained the right of residence following divorce from the EEAnational or following their death or departure from the UK (see sections 4 and 5) then you are onlyrequired to provide evidence of the EEA national exercising Treaty rights before that point.The details given in this section must be supported by the documentary evidence in section 11.If your EEA national family member has already acquired permanent residence, please provideeither their document certifying permanent residence (if they have one) or evidence of how theyacquired permanent residence, for example evidence of exercising Treaty rights for a continuousperiod of 5 years prior to the date at which they acquired permanent residence.If your EEA national family member has a document certifying permanentresidence, please tick this box and go to section 8, otherwise please completesection 7 below.From (dd/mm/yyyy)EmploymentTo (dd/mm/yyyy)Self-EmploymentSeeking workEconomic self-sufficiency (includingretirement)StudyPermanent incapacityTemporarily incapacitatedUnemployed and undertakingvocational training7.2 If your EEA national family member did not exercise Treaty rights for some or all of this periodbut were supported by the employment or funds of a family member, or if there are any otherperiods of time not accounted for in the above table, please give details below. Continue on aseparate sheet if necessary and enclose it with this formEEA4 Permanent Residence Card Version 06/2014 - page 26 of 38