Traveling to Spain/Portugal on EU residence permit

Hi all

One of my friend is a spouse of EU citizen and wants to go for holidays to Spain and Portugal this summer with Eu spouse together

would he need to have a visa on his passport or he can travel without a visa only on residence permit (stamp 4 eufam) ?

Can you guys who have first hand experience shed some light plz


thank you.

Don't have first hand experience in Spain and Portugal, but it worked fine for my partner in other countries and it should be the same there.

Having said that I did email the Spanish and Portuguese embassies a few times as we were planning on going there on holidays and I like to be 100% sure, but they never bothered replying ...
So we thought talk to them and we went to spend our money in the countries which did reply our emails (we got positive answers and did enter with no problem in Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Hungary, Belgium ... and the German embassy said a visa is required which I think is wrong but with no official confirmation we went to Hungary instead, which was pretty nice ).

If you manage to get a clear confirmation from them do post it here

thanks for the info .. i have gone through some info on this website and i believe that it should be fine to travel to Portugal as long as you are with your EU spouse here is a link of it from 2010
http://www.immigrationboards.com/irelan ... 0-140.html

we have emailed both embassies aswell... and would update if we get any answer back

thanks

There is no problem going to spain as i did that many times and no problem at allllll. No idea about Portugal

badr-amiche wrote:There is no problem going to spain as i did that many times and no problem at allllll. No idea about Portugal

thank you

can i ask what parts of Spain you traveled ?

We just came back from Budapest, Hungary. At Dublin airport they asked me for stamp4eufam card and at the budapest airport they just saw our passports and asked nothing.

masterboy123 wrote:We just came back from Budapest, Hungary. At Dublin airport they asked me for stamp4eufam card and at the budapest airport they just saw our passports and asked nothing.

Thanks my friend

This is the reply i got from Spanish embassy Dublin





(response from Spanish embassy Dublin)

EU family members holding a valid 4EUFam Residence Card will be exempt from the visa requirement to enter Spain providing they accompany or join the EU citizen. Please refer to Spanish legislation: http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2009/07/23/p ... -12207.pdf and to European Directive 2004/38EC.



If they do not hold a 4EUFam Residence Card, they need to apply for a visa. Application of EU citizens family members will be processed with due priority.



Requirements to apply for a family reunification visa:

Application form
1passport photograph
Irish residence card*
Marriage certificate*
EU spouse’s passport*
Proof that the EU citizen is travelling with the applicant : Accommodation and flight tickets

* Originals and copies of these documents are required




















Visa Department


De: . Emb. Dublín
Enviado el: lun 27/04/2015 11:36
Para: . Emb. Dublín. Visados
Asunto: RV: traveling spain on eu residence permit





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