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Benefits for an EU citizen
My client is Italian born and was engaged to a UK resident. They had a child, who was born in Italy, and then returned to the UK. Shortly afterwards the child’s father suffered a brain injury in an accident. His mother has since taken him out of the country and my client has been unable to contact him since. He is not registered as the child’s father on the birth cert. My client wants to return to the UK to try to find the father and I wondering if she would be entitled to benefits as a result of her son?
My client is Italian born and was engaged to a UK resident.
implication, not a UK citizen, especially as you then go on to say that the father’s mother has taken the father out of the country .......?
Sorry, the father is a UK citizen. His mother has taken him to another country for rehabilitation.
My client is Italian born and was engaged to a UK resident. They had a child, who was born in Italy, and then returned to the UK. Shortly afterwards the child’s father suffered a brain injury in an accident.
Did the father work abroad?
Italy, I meant.
My client is Italian born and was engaged to a UK resident. They had a child, who was born in Italy, and then returned to the UK. Shortly afterwards the child’s father suffered a brain injury in an accident.
Did the father work abroad?
Italy, I meant.
No he worked here. The only reason they went to Italy was for the birth of the child. The client has never worked in this country.
My reading of the OP is that your client is living in the UK but the father of her child has left the UK.
How then can your client ‘return to the UK’ ?
Have I misunderstood?
My reading of the OP is that your client is living in the UK but the father of her child has left the UK.
How then can your client ‘return to the UK’ ?
Have I misunderstood?
Client in Italy, father and child in the UK.
i get the impression that italian mother and british father/fiancee were in the UK, went to italy for birth of child, father returned to UK for some reason (presumably for work?) and had an accident. father’s mother removed him from UK for treatment and italian fiancee wants to track him down. has she tried father’s facebook? and she must have known his friends in UK before they went to italy for the birth.
i get the impression that italian mother and british father/fiancee were in the UK, went to italy for birth of child, father returned to UK for some reason (presumably for work?) and had an accident. father’s mother removed him from UK for treatment and italian fiancee wants to track him down. has she tried father’s facebook? and she must have known his friends in UK before they went to italy for the birth.
Hi Claire, that’s correct. But before she moves back she needs to know if she will have access to benefits for her and her child. Once she is here and receiving financial support, she can concentrate on finding the father. Unfortunately, he know lacks capacity due the brain injury, hence his mother has removed him from the country.