Hi All, Please can someone give me, or direct me to information on the working rights of an EU Long Term Residence Permit? The exact situation is this: I am an EU citizen living in another EU country and exercising my rights under Directive 2004/38/CE. My non-EU spouse is therefore eligible for the ...

Hi mgb , I see that seven months have passed since our last contact (not including FaarzH’s last interruption!). Anyway I have been in Europe for most of that time so I am once again legally resident in Italy and registered with the Anagrafe etc. In two days I will return to Myanmar. My wife & I h ...

Once again I must thank you for your time and help. The fact that I should not be treated differently to an Italian citizen is a very good one. Is that principle written into EU law somewhere? Obviously not in direct relation to my circumstances but in general? I will need to ask the HR Dept of my ...

Yes, I agree that the ship cannot be a place of residence so the question is where can be considered to be in my case. I haven’t been ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK for something like 20 years while I worked in Italy for two English companies (1 in summer, 1 in winter). As I plan to pack up and leav ...

I guess a ‘frontier worker’ is someone who commutes daily or weekly across the border. I know lots of Italians do this. My case is rather different as I’d be away (on a river-cruise ship, crossing many countries) for 8-10 weeks before returning ‘home’ for 3. I say ‘home’ because I plan to return to w ...

Dear mgb , Thank you for your ongoing assistance. I have written to them once more for confirmation and will let you know what they say. Unfortunately I must now add another layer of complication which may not be in your area of expertise. Please let me know if I should start a new topic. Obviously ...

Dear mgb , The latest response is brief and is as follows (my translation): "Your wife is entitled to a free visa and facilitated procedure only in the case of a short visa, as already reported (to you)" Then he has highlighted the words "free of charge short-term entry visa" from section 2.2.1 from ...

Dear mgb, While I wait for their latest response I am thinking ahead and would like to ask you two things: 1. Can you tell me if the Handbook is also available in Italian or are these kind of documents always in English (& could you even provide a link to it if it is?) 2. Regarding the Marriage ...

Dear mgb, As I mentioned previously, I wrote again to the Embassy to explain that we need an ‘accompanying family member’ visa. Their response was to say that the request was so ‘unusual’ (“particolare”) that they needed to refer it to the Ministry in Italy. Their next email has said that the Ministr ...

Thank you, mgb, for your ongoing support. Rather than actually apply for the Schengen visa (we’re not at the stage of having actual dates of travel etc yet), I wrote again to the embassy and pointed out that the need for a Residence Permit followed by a ‘Family Reunification Visa’ does not apply to m ...

Hi CR001 and mgb , I have been told by the Italian Embassy in Myanmar that I need to already be living in Italy, with a Residence Permit (“permesso de soggiorno”) before I can apply for a “Family Reunification Visa” for my partner. This seems to be at odds with what is stated on the ‘polizia dello st ...

Thank you for your further explanation mgb . I now understand that my wife needs an entry visa for the Schengen zone and that she can get one, based on acceptable proof of her being my wife, at a border post (but likely to be just 15 days) or at an Embassy (possibly for 90 days). Am I correct to ...

Thank you mgb for your info & links. Regarding the Schengen visa: you say it can be taken from an Embassy before travelling, or at a Border Post. I have a couple of questions about this. 1. Would it be the same kind of visa issued at each place? 2. Would it be a tourist visa? 3. If it is a tourist ...

Leaving aside the issue of travelling without a visa, I believe this helpful forum has already made it clear that, technically speaking, my Burmese wife does not require a Schengen visa to enter the EU with me as I hold a UK passport. So, let’s say we arrive at an EU border and I have enough d ...