Hello, Just a quick question - will the person who has residence card as non EEA EFM will have a right to work and travel freely within EU? Thanks for your help. I presume what you meant was does receiving an EEA RC from UK gives you rights to work freely in the rest of EU - answer is no. Your righ...

Hello, Just a quick question - will the person who has residence card as non EEA EFM will have a right to work and travel freely within EU? Thanks for your help. I presume what you meant was does receiving an EEA RC from UK gives you rights to work freely in the rest of EU - answer is no. Your righ...

Hi, Can I ask - what is your legal status in the UK when you applied for the EEA FM? Are you/ is your : 1) a visa overstayer 2) visa close to expiry 3) arrive in the UK on EEA FP 4) with (and still has) a valid visa that is not yet close to expiry 5) other? Also can I ask did you: 1) married in the ...

I personally think that EU immigrants who have established residence should be treated as UK citizens. That is if established residence means that they have attained permanent residence. It takes five years for an EU immigrant to establish residence in the UK. If they marry after they have establis...

If you are illegal in the UK, you cannot marry a Polish citizen and continue living in the UK under EU free movement laws. You need to apply under UK law (this will probably result in a denial of residence). If you are legally currently in Spain, you cannot marry a French citizen (who is already es...

Ignoring other family members, this should mean that an EU national who has established himself in a host member state would be treated as a citizen of the host member state unless his spouse already has lawful residence in a member state. This makes a lot of sense. It preserves freedom of movement...

Ok, so how about if a french national, marries a columbian studying in france and then move to the uk? Provided the student's permission to be in France confers 'lawful residence', that's allowed by the proposed law. However, I'm not sure they could move back to France relying on EU law. I'm having...

Thanks, crunchycracker, for your detailed explanations. However, I still am not sure I get this right: if an EU national residing in the UK marries a non-EU who never set foot in Europe (let's say marries them in a country outside EU) and then the EU national brings them on a family permit to the U...

Do these new measures affect only the Surinder Singh applications or do they affect the ones of Eu-nationals residing in the UK who then get married to a non-EU ? I've read the thread, but it seems that you are discussing only the Surinder Singh route. To me it seems that the wording of the new mea...

Incidentally, you're assuming both parties reside in the same country when they marry. That's not true; they don't even have to be physically present in the same country when they marry! Apologies, I'm stating that for my case where both my and my spouse intend to live together and if UK immigratio...

RichardW, I don't know if I necessarily agree with your reply to this question, as a non-EU spouse on a Tier 2 Visa is technically 'lawfully residing' in the UK. RichardW, I don't know if I necessarily agree with your reply to this question, as a non-EU spouse on a Tier 2 Visa is technically 'lawfu...

Hi everyone, I apologise if this has been asked before but I have some questions on how the new EU-UK deal will affect free-movement rights of non-EU spouses which I don't think there has been a clear-cut yes/no answers to. So according to the new EU's draft: The Commission intends to adopt a propos...