I am dual British / Irish nationality and my wife is Chinese. We have been married for 9 years and lived in the UK using the EEA Family Permit route to get my Wife into the UK. But in August 2012 we moved to France, bought a house here, and my Wife got a one year residence card (Carte du sejour) but...
Its scandalous that the Irish government got away with it for so long. Everyone on this site knew the correct interpretation of the EU directive. My wife and I wanted to go and live in Ireland but instead now live in the UK due to this Irish immigration scandal! We still intend moving to Ireland in ...
Ark: You can only claim citizenship going back as far as grand-parents and you need tobe able to prove the link with birth/marriage/death certificates.
Hi Kev, Thanks for the info. I am a dual UK/Irish citizen (My grandmother was Irish). My Chinese wife has got a Family Permit to come into the UK using my Irish citizenship. Later we may well move to Ireland. I would be grateful if u could anser some questions... What documentation did u have to pro...
Update: My Chinese wife got her UK Family Permit from Guangzhou in China. She had to wait 5 days (it was posted out) and it was free despite them initially saying there would be a charge. 8) We provided the marriage certificate, legal copy of my Irish passport, cover letter. Also we provided extra d...
I received a quick response to my email from the UK visa processing company in China and they have acknowledged that the EEA Family Permit is FREE after originally telling my wife there would be a charge. But they have not answered my query regarding documentation required for the EEA Family Permit ...
Thanks for your responses everyone. 8) I'm not sure which company is handling the applications in China but it adds another layer of bureacracy to the process. One very good thing about this though, is that there are many visa processing centres around China including in Shenzhen and Guangzhou which...
Hi, I am a dual Irish/British citizen (having lived in the UK all my life) and want to bring my Chinese wife (married Dec 2004 in UK) into the UK on an EEA Family permit using my Irish citizenship. She was in the UK on a student visa when we married and we lived together for 7-8 months in the UK and...
Hi Bill, Don't tell the HO about the German visa. They wouldn't know anything about it. Also, ignore certain tossers comments on this forum! My Chinese wife was also refused with a reason of our marriage not being genuine. Which is total BOLLOX! Because she had spent over a year of her 2 year LLR ou...
CB: No wonder you won your case and no wonder they didn't say anything in court because they knew they were in the wrong. Its as if you were originally assessed using UK spouse visa rules with the amount of proof they were demanding, when in fact you were applying for an EEA Family Permit. It just s...
CB1964: Congratulations! I will be trying the same thing in 2-3 months time using my Irish citizenship for my Non-EU spouse to join me in the UK. I'll let you know how we get on! 8) CB: You never gave the reason why the EEA Family Permit was refused in the first place. Can u tell us so we can learn ...
PAVA: What year were u born in the UK? (Read below) Also, why should your marriage certificate say you were born in Ireland when you were born in the UK? Sounds strange. Here are the UK rules for EEA Family Permits for u to read up on... http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xc...
Congratulations! Is it worth your husband asking his employer if they can issue him another contract. I'm sure they would rather that happened than having to train someone else up. Unless you had already resigned and prepared yourself to the moving to the UK. Dealing with immigration is a bit of an ...
MrMan: As long as you have been living together during your marriage then the HO cant really say that your marriage isn't genuine. As they are apt to do in some cases.
It seems there is another advantage of the EU rules I think which may be of benefit to some people. In that they are more flexible in allowing more time to be spent outside of the host country and/or EU. That is one reason I wanted to use the EU approach as my wife has business interests outside of ...
