To be sure you need to check the relevant legislation, links to which can be found on this page: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/free_movement_of_persons_asylum_immigration/l14514_en.htm As far as I remember a residence permit of one of Schengen-participating countrie...
As your residence has already been "established" (they issued your residence documents), they have no right to discriminate/harrass you and your family further. See references to relevant European Case Law on page 15 of this document: http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/13634/RSCAS_2010_23.co...
At the bottom of the following page http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/site/about/index_en.htm there is a link saying "Please let us know whether the service you have received from SOLVIT fulfilled these standards." which links to: SOLVIT@ec.europa.eu Check the following topic as well: http://www.immigratio...
You need to contact SOLVIT: http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/site/index_en.htm
Give them whatever evidence you have.
If it does not help, there is a "central" email (of their office in Brussels i suppose). I'll find and post it in a sec...
Yes, I recall reading something like this about France too.
This is clearly a violation of the law, on how and where to complain read this post of mine for example: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... ht=#740956
FYI: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52003DC0101:EN:HTML Second Commission Report to the Council and Parliament on the implementation of Directives 90/364, 90/365 and 93/96 (right of residence) /* COM/2003/0101 final */ (directives predating and replaced by 2004/38/EC): D...
The Directive 2004/38/EC mandates the duration of 5 years for all residence cards. (unless the EU citizen intends to stay for less and declares so).
There were also some ECJ cases in this regard, to confirm this.
Also, as it seems that your own status has been established once (by issuing a residence certificate to you by the state), you do not need to do anything anymore about it even if you ceased to satisfy the necessary conditions. (i.e. you have no obligation to prove anything to anyone anymore) Conside...
Read this European Commission's guide to know your rights: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/citizenship/docs/guide_2004_38_ec_en.pdf (and to know what to talk to SOLVIT etc. about). I suggest that you count that 6 months limit from your first application and press this issue via SOLVIT according...
Does not matter, a specific type of visa or its duration (or even if you have a visa or not) is not a prerequisite to exercise your treaty rights along with your spouse. See http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=516576&highlight=#516576 and http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?p...
I would apply with minimal documents as required by the law (evidence of the relationship with the EU national) and insist that they process my application as it is. If they want to reject it, fine, let them do it, they MUST provide a justified reason in writing and inform you on how to appeal as pe...
Refer them to the handbook linked here earlier (quote relevant parts from it along with the link): http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/borders/docs/c_2010_1620_en.pdf This handbook establishes the rules they MUST work by. If they refuse to, well, I guess that's what there is SOLVIT for: http:/...
These are illegal demands. Even if you take a look at the application form for Schengen visa (if you choose to get one, you do not have to) you'll see that it says that fields marked with "*" do not need to be filled in by family members of EU nationals. Essentially all you have to provide is eviden...
The Court of justice of the European Union ruled back on 26 April 2012 ( Case C-508/10 European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands ) that those countries that charge hundreds of euros in application fees failed to fulfil their obligations under the Directive 2003/109/EC. I guess the European Co...
Looks like the local office is wrong (those immigration offices are notorious for incompetence and worse :( ): 1. http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=350195#350195 2. http://www.prio.no/upload/Free%20Movement%20of%20Workers%20in%20Cyprus%20and%20the%20EU%20series%2012010.pdf On page 5: ...
When I entered the UK, my British HK passport was stamped "Indefinite leave to reman". Hm... Regardless of whatever deadlines you have missed, aren't anyone who lived in the UK for at least a year with a time-unrestricted immigration status (like IRL) eligible to apply for nationality via naturalis...
Of course not. Besides what acme4242 posted I also mentioned the mess with visa-free travel for non-EU family members and the mess with PR (the fact that it is not clear if PR residence cards are good to travel within the EU and that there are two very similar permanent statuses defined in directive...
newlight1 , The way freedom of movement rules work is that neither EU nationals nor their non-EU family members need a permission to work. It is kind of the other way around: you need to work in order to secure your residency rights (it is just one of possible ways to exercise treaty rights of cour...
There are no separate "eligibility to work" part of non-EU spouse's rights. As long as the EU national exercises his/her treaty rights (living off savings - "being self-sufficient" - is one of the ways of exercising these rights) the non-EU spouse can stay and work in the same country. And for the f...
