If you run into trouble contact Solvit (bottom of this page: http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/non-eu-family/index_en.htm And more info can be found in the stickies here and also on the Handbooks on EU Home Affairs: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/border...

You may wish to share your experuence with the EU COmmission (EU Home Affairs) so they can do something about this crappy service. Remember that TLS and VFS are entirely optional service partners for Schengen visas, I'd not even bothering wasting time and a service fee for their processing, but use ...

VFS is a useless and entirely optional external service party. All applicants, especially spouse of an EU/EEA national can apply directly at the Schengen embassies but some are very reluctant. VFS is very wrong here: as the spouse of an EU national she can apply from any place in the world, includin...

It might (should) be easier to bypass the entirely optional external part y(TLS Contact) and make an appointment directly with the French, saving you a service fee in the process. http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Visas-21435 You can chose to apply at TLS office or at directly the embassy (the latter mea...

According to the Visacode (visa rules) a reservation of return transport is sufficient: 1. When applying for a uniform visa, the applicant shall present: (a)documents indicating the purpose of the journey; (b) documents in relation to accommodation, or proof of sufficient means to cover his accommod...

Reservations of bokoings are sufficient for regular Schengen applications. Many embassies explicitly mention not to make any definitive bookings/payments to make sure you don't waste money incase of a visa refusal. Ofcourse I'd make sure that it's very clear that your parents will continue on to the...

Oh nice! But the Greece Embassy website states that you must go through some other service! am I right? It states on here that: The Visa Application Centres are operated by VF Services (UK) Limited. The embassy itself should have instructions on direct applications, bypassing VFS, though some embas...

Remember that if your spouse joins you (EU UK national) that such a visa is entirely free of costs (unless you chose to use an optional external service provider such as VFS Global), with minimum documents and isseud ASAP (within 2 weeks). http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/non-e...

Blame the poor British card, as obviously your status and that of your spouse cannot be devalued. He remains the spouse/family member of you, an EU national exercising freedom of movement. A proper UK design would maintain clear family relation and EU-familymember starus on the card... You may wish ...

@Cs95tdg: the legal maximum waiting time is 2 weeks, telling people they need to wait a month is a violation of the Schengen rules! @nawaz: it's a requirwment set by some embassies. Legalisation might be requested but if you can show that a mariage is legal then the embassy had no obligation to dema...

You are all getting screwed by the French, or at the very least they are being needlessly difficult about this. 1- TLS is optional, you can apply directly at the embassy with zero costs of any kind, an appointment must be given within 2 weeks of the request (article 9.2 of the Schengen code on visa)...

6 days is very very less. They normally ask for at least 10 working days to process a visa (the law says they are allowed 15 days to make a decision..). I don't know the details of the appointment system but the law says that spouses of EU citizens should be granted visas for free and with an accel...

The Netherlands does allow unmarried partner migration, IF they are in a "durable, exclusive and genuine" relationship. What exactly makes a relationship meet these demands is a bit vague but it a relationship of 6-12 months should be sufficient. You will want to inquire with the authorities to see ...

My mistake, I didn't realize (forgot) that it was a regular application and should have (re)read the entire thread again. Thanks ban.s

The embassy should see some evidence that the EU national and the non EU family members will be together or join eachother in Switserland. This could be any evidence ranging from a written statement by the EU national to whatever you may have at hand (reservations of a flight or hotel etc.). Stricly...

can appeal and solvit go parallel???

Appeal, complaining with the embassy, foreign affairs, Solvitm EU Commission (Home Affairs) etc. can all be done at the same time.

It is your wife that will have to convince the embassy that she will return, you don't really come into the picture just yet. She will have to show ties with India such as a job/study, children to take care of, property (house, car etc.) and anything else that binds her to India and shows she has se...

Applicatio processing time says little about denial or refusal, though you might wish to get worried after 15 calendar days: the processing time for a complete application that raises no question is max 15 days. You could be lucky and be ontop of a batch of applications and get it back within 24h, o...

Get Solvit involved, you are correct, the embassy is not. You may also wish to inform EU Home Affairs (EU council). There is no need for return (they cannot even ask returnin booking reservations!), and refusal of other embassies are not a factor either as each application needs to be decided over o...

Sounds like CR001 got screwed by the Spanish embassy.... no suprise there I suppose(the Spanish embassies are known to apply this wrongly as Spain integrated the Directive 2004/38 incorrectly in it's national legislation, the Spanish ministry of foreign affairs is aware of this and does generally re...

You already figured some of the information out yourself (the Schengenform, skipping the questions with an * and no fees). More info can be found in de EU handbook for the processing of visa, which has a section on family of EU/EEA nationals (page 81> ): http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-...

Yes, an itinerary/reservation/option should be enough, thus not requiring you to make any serious costs untill th visa has been granted. If you have read the handbook you probably know, but just incase: If you or your spouse is not Polish, and your parents (in law) come to visit you, this would be a...

As far as translating papers goes, the Dutch authorities accept documents written in Dutch, English, French and German. So if the documents you use to apply are in any of those languages or translated into any of those languages, you should be fine.

You should contact: - The embassy - The Belgian ministry of Foreign affairs - SOLVIT - EU Home Affairs Explain that the embassy took far too long for a normal procedure, but that (assuming you are indeed covered by the Directive 2004/38) that they shouldn't have charged a fee, it should have been pr...

You could but are not obligated to. You need to show the embassy that: - there is a family relation, by marriage --> mariage papers (plus translation so the embassy can verify the content of the documents themselves). - ID the both of you via a (copy of) passpors so they can match the names on the m...