Absolutely not. You do not require private medical insurance, as the cost of health care is included in your National Insurance Contribution.

NHS is not considered as PUBLIC FUND.

The topic dealt with on this thread is confined to certain category of EU migrant.

I Junior, congratulations on the success of your mums case, and sorry to hear about your brother's predicament. As stated earlier, they will try and stop him from having his residency, which he is supposed to get if he meets the conditions. The directive is an instruction, which gives memberstate di...

Unfortunately the child cannot be Irish. If he or she was born 3 years after your lawful stay in Ireland, then the child would have qualified for citizenship. You would have to wait until you have citizenship, which will hopeful be before the child becomes an adult, and apply for his or her one too.

Hi Ben, The reason why i referred to them as Irish Immigration Authorities rather than GNIB or INIS(DOJ), is for the benefit of readers of the thread who might not be familiar with those terms. The Airlines lady correctly stated that the GNIB have started doing passport checks on depature, and it wa...

Excellent stuff. Pleased to hear about your success.


However, i will beg to defer with you on the need to hire a solicitor. They are not worth the money for sure.

Proof of address is not required for a Residence Card. You can be living in a different parking spot each night, and that is fine. The Eu citizen does need a job or to be self-sufficient. But a fixed address is NOT required. I know this, but the Justice Department thinks otherwise. In the weeks lea...

I think it is the duty of the moderators to delete a threads as and when they see fit, especially when the thread seeks to foment dissent, incite discord, and vilify members of the forum. Can i remind you guys, that moderators do a fabulously noble job for which they are not being paid. There presen...

No it doesn't matter one bit. Your wife entered in compliance with EU and national rules. Even if she entered clandestine manner, her residency should not be affected, as stipulated by Metock. The embassy should have been able to confirm without calling London, that any civil marriages recognised by...

If your partner has to travel, you might want to consider having her passport certified by a Solicitor for a small fee and sending it to the Home office, with proof of his travel arrangements. You could also write a small explanatory note stating why his passport cannot be sent. That would probably ...

Unfortunately, he will be unable to obtain a PPS without a proof of address. The rules for PPS, in terms of address proof is more stringent, than for opening some bank accounts with financial institutions in Ireland. perhaps, signing up for a medical insurance or getting a phone line set up in his n...

47 Since it considered that an interpretation of Directive 2004/38 was necessary for it to give judgment in the main proceedings, the High Court decided to stay the proceedings and refer the following questions to the Court for a preliminary ruling: ‘(1) Does Directive 2004/38/EC permit a Member ...

The department of justice would require a Bank Statement in either of both of your names as proof of address. You need to apply for PRTB as that would be required for your application. You do not need to supply it immediately, but would need to send them a proof, showing you have at least applied fo...

The Community Welfare Officer would most likely visit your house to check your living conditions, your income and expenditure. You can tell him you are separated and that might be fine. As a married couple, he would want to assess your wife's income too. Under EU law, you cannot loose your right of ...

That's quite a nice photo of yourself, next to the border stone. You seems quite relaxed and at ease, you also appear much younger than i would have imagined. So that border stone marks the official border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. No border guard, no equivalent of Garda or UK Border ag...

You are perfectly correct, and thanks for the correction, there is a Swiss-EU bileteral agreement, which was signed between Switzerland and EU.

So basically they are the only country on the EFTA still, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein went on to join the EEA.

EFTA was never part of EEC, they are termed as the outer seven, after their 7 founding members which includes Britain. The Brits were indeed there, but they wanted to be part of the inner 6 or the EEC. No one forced them to come in. They joined at their own accord, as already pointed out to you. Cou...

That would be by far the best thing to do, no freedom of movement but having it as a trade bloc. Meats when the EC was created by 6 countries namely Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Italy and France , the intention was to create a single market and promote economic intergration. You cannot...

Under EU law, she doesn't need to apply for residency documents. However without an affixed stamp in the passport, the holder can find it hard to proof

Hi Christian, I agree with you fully. I can't believe i would ever bring myself to say i agree with meats. This is like a paradoxical situation, where we both agree on things, but for different reasons. The thing i like most about meat apart from his debating skills, is his true reflection of the mi...

I think the UK should be kicked out of the union. Their presence there is not conducive to the good of the union. They keep talking about how people should be law abiding, Minister Woolas, or whatever he is called went on radio 1 uttering so much tripe, about how immigrant don't have any freedom of ...

Meats, it appears you haven't applied for a passport lately. Retina data is now taken. Which is why you photograph has to be of certain quality. Also the newly issued passport has biometric information. Brits rejected it, not because of their criminality, but because of the civil rights violations a...

11 months. Utterly Preposterous.

Anyway there is a glimmer of hope, considering they have found the need to reply to your MP and acknowledged their shortcomings.

I am sure they will either issue it or ask for further documentations from you soon.

All the best.

Interesting isn't. When Meats' compatriot were rejecting having their biometric taken for the government's abandoned Compulsory ID Card scheme, i don't remember people insinuating they might be criminals, that is why the vast majority of Brits were rejecting the idea. There was a huge public outcry,...

Hi Kwame,

Here is the information about the Online Application and the countries that can avail of it. Also this is the standard requirements and the requirements for different categories of EEA family members.


I hope this helps. All the best mate.

I suspect the legality of the EEA Family Permit and the need for biometrics will be dealt with by the European Courts of Justice, in due course, or shall i say well overdue course. In the mean time, you will need to apply for it, and accept all the requirements, which i don't necessarily agree to. I...