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Source: http://immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=30020Stating a visa is NOT needed:
Bulgaria - bulgarianembassydublin@eircom.net
Denmark - dubamb@um.dk
Estonia - embassy.dublin@mfa.ee
Finnland - sanomat.dub@formin.fi
Italy - ambasciata.dublino@esteri.it
Latvia - embassy.ireland@mfa.gov.lv
Luxemburg - emb@luxembourg.co.uk
the Netherlands - dub-info@minbuza.nl
Poland - info@dublin.polemb.net
Romania - ambrom@eircom.net
Slovenia - vdb@gov.si
Sweden - ambassaden.dublin@foreign.ministry.se
other cases:
4 countries (>>Austria, Belgium, Cyprus and Malta<<) already confirmed this is correct in earlier contacts (=a visa is NOT needed), so I didn't ask again.
Perhaps the next person to visit Malta should hand the immigration officers a copy of their transposition of Directive 2004/38/EC, the "Free Movement of European Union Nationals and their Family Members Order 2007".microlab wrote:Before visit I got the letter from Maltese embassy to explain that visa not needed for my wife and good job I did.
Immigration woman in Malta did not have a clue, she even called supervisor and he did not have a clue. either.
At the end I just said:
"Look , we are here for 7 days holiday and we are going back to Dublin"
Woman just smiled and we got through.
On the way back guy asked me how come my wife did not get stamp.
Had to explain whole thing all over again.
Free Movement of European Union Nationals and their Family Members Order 2007, § 3(2) wrote:Subject to limitations justified on grounds of public policy,
public security or public health, a Union citizen and his family
members accompanying or joining him, may enter and leave Malta
simply with a valid identification document in the case of Union
citizens and a valid passport in the case of family members who are
not nationals of Member States:
Provided that, where appropriate, family members who are
not nationals of a Member State shall be required to have an entry
visa, which shall be issued free of charge as soon as possible and on
the basis of an accelerated procedure, unless they are already in
possession of a valid residence card, and no entry or exit stamp shall
be placed in the passport of such family members in possession of a
valid residence card:
Provided further that the Principal Immigration Officer
shall give every reasonable opportunity to a Union citizen or a family
member who is not a national of a Member State and who does not
have the necessary travel documents available, to obtain the
necessary documents or have them brought to him or to corroborate or prove by other means that he is covered by the provisions of Part II
of this Order.
