Hi Your wife can get a Irish family visa (Join family visa) and is a long stay visa through INIS department which would allow for A stay of 6 months As I've exercised my treaty rights in another EU state, I was under the impression that we can apply via the EEA route, rather than the Join Family vi...
Hi, You are correct that once you have exercised your treaty rights in another EU country you are able to transfer those rights to Ireland on return. This is provided that your spouse has attained a Residency Card of a Family Member of a Union Citizen (EU Fam card). I also lived in Spain, and later ...
Hi there, I'm Irish and my wife (non-EU) and I moved to Germany (Berlin) last year and registered my wife in the foreigners office as a family member of an EU citizen. At the time they issued the card on green paper. I questioned this as we have previously lived in Spain and Ireland (after exercisin...
Indeed. But the applicable case law is that of O and B, which holds that more than 3 months is sufficient (ie. longer than the period during which a Union citizen may freely reside in another member state), working is not required, and that family life must have been strengthened. This is all academ...
Sorry for alte reply. 1. It would certainly help to be able to speak Spanish! But it's not totally necessary. For your residence card application, everything is done via forms and by having the necessary documentation. Nearly all of the forms have English translation versions online (only for refere...
The new case of O and B v the Netherlands (2014) holds that it is sufficient that the EU citizen live for at least 3 months in a host member state, and that family life between them and their non-EEA spouse has been strengthened, ie. by living together. https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh...
Cheers. We want to do things fully legally so we're going to consult an immigration solicitor when we get to Ireland. If it's a case of having to leave every 3 months, so be it (we have no intention of settling in Ireland). Though I'm not sure of the legality of that. Hence the solicitor consultation!
No probs. 1) Insuance is about €53 each per month. You need to get insurance 'sin copago', which means without co-payment, ie., the insurance covers everything without you paying towards hospital visits, prescriptions, etc. This is required and most insurances offer con-copago (with copayment). Thes...
In Spain it's possible to get an EUFam Residence card for your wife with €8800. You also need full cover health insurance for both of you (sin copago). You set up a bank account and need to get a certificate from the bank stating your account balance. First you need to apply for an NIE for you, then...
Yes, I thought so. I'm not sure if this has any bearing (positively or negatively), but I exercised my Treaty Rights as a British citizen in Spain. For example, all our documentation, our marriage cert (from China and apostilled by the Spanish embassy), our NIEs, empadronamientos, etc. were done und...
Ok, thanks very much for the reply. I realise the duration of our stay here is short. We entered on the 5th of May, which is just over 3 months ago. Our intention was of course to stay here but events have caused those plans to change. The problem with staying longer, which we gave a lot of thought ...
http://www.migrantproject.ie/images/Residency%20information%20for%20family%20members%20and%20partners%20of%20Irish%20citizens%20V8.pdf Page 25 of this document states that a visa is not required for my wife as she is a holder of a residence card issued under article 10. (Sorry to keep posting the sa...
Ok, great. Thanks. As far as I can tell (and I am not an expert but have been researching this exhaustively) my wife can enter Ireland as she is a "holder of a document called a Residence card of a family member of a Union citizen" (per Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2011) so long as it is issue...
Thanks. Yes I have an NIE number. I am not registered for tax though. I applied for my EU residence card (NIE) here in Spain as self sufficient combined with private medical insurance (as my intention was to attend the master course here). It was sufficient for my wife to attain her EU Fam card. Yes...
My understanding is that she can enter into Ireland without a visa as per here: http://www.immigrationboards.com/ireland/no-irish-visa-required-if-you-have-any-residence-card-t78980.html Is this wrong? Yes, I suppose it's sort of Surinder Singh, but we do not intend to settle in Ireland, only to res...
So my wife and I have been in Spain and she has an EU Family Residence Card for here. I'm Irish/British dual national. Our original plan was for me to do a master's course here in Spain, however the university messed up my application so I didn't get in to the course. Since getting here on the 5th o...
Yes, notarised affidavits are the order of the day here. I'll look into that. It seems never to be as easy as providing supporting documentation, that documentation must be accompanied by some sort of notarisation/legalisation. It's probably a good idea to have a lawyer draft something like that up,...
Thanks for the reply. We're not really looking to do SS at this time, but maybe in the future, so that wasn't really a consideration. It was more a worry over the process of proving I'm the same person and so entitled to exercise my EU Treaty rights, possibility of having to reissue of marriage cert...
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to put it. I have dual Irish-British citizenship, was born and always lived in Ireland, but always travelled with my British passport. My wife (who is Chinese) and I got married in China and have since travelled to...
