astartes, please do us all a favour and shut up with your crap, and stop spamming the whole Irish board with your nonsense. Complete pain in the back you are... get a life, or at least try to get on with your current one. And if you don't like it, then leave...but just stop putting up these silly me...

astartes, please do us all a favour and shut up with your crap, and stop spamming the whole Irish board with your nonsense. Complete pain in the back you are... get a life, or at least try to get on with your current one. And if you don't like it, then leave...but just stop putting up these silly me...

Hello, my (EU citizen) amd my wife have been living and both working in the UK for 13 months now, and my wife has been issued the 5 years residence permit last september. Now we would like to invite my MIL over for a few weeks. Can she also apply for the EEA FP or does she need to apply for a regula...

disregard...

I made the same request a few weeks ago, and got the folloiwng response from the dutch embassy: *********************** LON-VZ <lon-vz@minbuza.nl> to XXX date Wed, May xx, 2008 at x:xx PM subject RE: Visa Requirement for NON-EEA citizen legally residing in the UK (married to an EU citizen) mailed-by...

The Netherlands is one of the countries that follows the directive. If you are married to a EU citizen and have a residence Permit from the UK (and probably anoy other EU country) you don't need a visa to enter the netherland. All you need is your passports, and a copy of your marriage certificate (...

Sorry, but why not just send it in very quickly? If they ask for further Info they will probably already have decided on your application and need to verify something before sending out the residence documents and your docs. They asked us for some additional Info. I sent it to them the same day, and...

I came back from London to Dublin on Sunday, and I def. had to go through Passport Control.

Between Ireland and the UK "enforcing" this law is no problem - just travel, as there are no border-checkpoints. If you travel to anywhere else in Europe, it's better to have a copy of the law with you, as some border-guards are unaware of these laws. However, in the end and after some (polite) arg...

She will need an Irish Visa, which will take about 3 weeks to be processed by the Irish Embassy in the UK. I am living in Northern Ireland (around 3 km from the border to the Republic of Ireland) and even my legally residing non EEA wife needs a visa to go to the republic. Bit of a joke, IMO. Furthe...

Check if you have a BUPA office in your country. They usually offer Travel Insurance that complies to Schengen requirements.

You might get a better response if you stated where you are based.

Child Benefit (Kindergeld) is currently 154 Euro a month per kid. There are no deductions, no income limits, no taxation for it. But it might take a while to get through, especially if you just moved there. But you will be able to claim it backwards to the day you took up residency in Germany. There...

You don't need to apply for EEA1, if you don't want to. That will have no effect on your wifes EEA2 application.

But it seems that the EEA2 applications are dealt with quicker if you send in the EEA and EEA2 applications together (my own experience).

Fortunately less then 2 months in our case. Applied beginning of July and had it at the end of August. Probably because we sent EU1 and EU2 together.

So I guess, we can count ourself lucky.

Being German myself, I am not sure why that is such a problem. Slight inconvenience...yes, but not really a problem. I much prefer having a valid Schengen Visa in my wifes passport then having to argue with the Airline Staff every time to let us board a plane to any of the Schengen States. (and that...

Sorry to hear that.

and I thought we germans were bad. In our case we just had to send the Schengen Form with our passports and the marriage certificate to the german embassy. 3 days later we had a one year multiple entry visa.

Good lcuk with the belgium embassy.

If your wife is french I would have applied at the french embassy. I have been told by several embassies (and it also states on most embassy sites) that the spouses of EU citizens always should apply at their home embassy, no matter where within the EU they intend to travel. I know three people who ...

I am aware that my wife wouldn't need a Visa ... in theory. But we still applied for a (free) multiple entry Visa from my home countries embassy. As we got issued with a 1 year visa that will do for a while. When I go on vacation the last thing I wanna do is to risk any discussions with some "not so...

Thanks for the answers. You don't (necessarily) have to give up your other citizenship when taking on german citizenship. You can apply for an excemption, which is in fact not too difficult. AFAIK that's the case for germans who take on another citizenship and for foreigners who take on German citiz...

Hi, I am a German Citizen married to a non-EU citizen. We are currently living outside Germany (and I have been for the last 7 years), but intend to go back at some point (at latest when we have a kid). Is it possible for my wife to acquire german citizenship (at some point in the future) based on o...

A Reisepass usually doesn't look like a library card: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch.jpg/180px-Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch.jpg A personalausweis (german identity card) looks like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Must...

Hello Wanderer, a "Reisepass" is the german Passport. You you by any chance mean the "Personalausweis"? The Personalausweis is the german identity Card, and every german citizen is required to carry it with him. It is usually accepted for travelling within europe, and even some parts of North Africa...

I still have Bank Account in Dublin, where my salary gets paid in. We also opened a Bank Account in NI, to which we now transfer money from the Irish Bank Account if needed. But we haven't done that for a while as we are currently living just of my wifes wages. Bank Transfer between EU countries is ...

Hello Pava, your wife will need an Irish Visa, which unfortunately takes ages to get. I doubt any airline will let her board a flight without a visa, and from time to time Irish immigration even has Immigration Controls for flights from the UK. I flew from Heathrow to Dublin a few weeks ago and had ...

I heard this morning on the Radio that the UK will scrap the common Travel Area arrangement with Ireland to introducte the new "E-Border" system in the UK. That means all people will need a Passport to Travel from Ireland to the UK from 2009. Do you think Ireland will join Schengen now? AFAIK the Co...