I was born and lived in the UK until I was 25, and was then in Colombia for a few years (married while there and lived with husband). Have now been in Finland for 4 months with my husband. Have always had citizenship of both countries but have never lived in Finland before. To be honest, strict UK v...

I am not sure you can make this assessment with very limited facts. You need to establish how this person acquired their British and Finnish nationality, was it naturally at birth, or registration or naturalisation. If the OP is a naturalised British who obtained that citizenship after residing in ...

As an aside, congratulations on doing your PhD from Finland. Definitely on my list of countries to do a PhD in, if possible, though for entirely esoteric reasons (Finnish PhDs are invested with a hat and sword on successfully completing PhDs, as a symbol that they will defend the truths that they d...

Thank you very much for such a clear and informative reply. I understand much better now - it hinges on the fact that I'm not exercising my free movement rights since I am in fact entitled to live in Finland. Ie. we'd need to be living in Spain or some third country for this route to apply. I guess ...

I've also just come across a "EEA family permit" - is my understanding correct, that since I have a British passport we are not eligible to apply for this? And the S.Singh route essentially helps us get around this?
Thank you very much for any advice, it would be much appreciated!

Hello, I (British and Finnish citizen) and my non-EEA spouse are currently living in Finland. We would like to go to the UK on at least 4 different occasions over the next 6 months, for weddings and other events. My husband has never been to the UK and so this is the first time we're applying for hi...