It has been moving extremely slowly so nothing new to report. I did however learn that the Schengen embassies in London had a meeting a few weeks ago to discussing how to treat EEA residence cards issued by the UK. Most of the embassies had no idea on how to treat them but all of them are going to ...

Check this link
http://www.help.gv.at/Content.Node/7/Seite.070000.html

Your wife-to-be will need a CoA. From China, I guess.

I think your wife will then be treated as the family member of an EEA national.

My wife has ILR in the UK whats our best option to go on a holiday and possibly work in EU. Can she work im a UK citizen. We can i believe use this directive mentioned on the board ? Yes, I think so too. You are an EEA citizen and therefore have the right to work in other member countries as well a...

Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:

86ti wrote:and some EEA nationals born there

I can not think of any way this could be applied to EEA nationals who are born in Austria. Can you explain?

Born and having lived all their lifes in Austria, thereby not exercising treaty rights.

If you want to marry in Austria you simply ask your "Standesamt" about the procedure.

So my guess is probably the same as yours: the interpretation and implementation may vary in the countries (just look at Austria's recent 'residence law'). What is interesting about Austria's new residence law? The goverment's argument is centered around the right to freely move within the EEA. Onl...

They told me that they urged the consular section of the Austrian ministry of foreign affairs for an answer. I have also been told that in a recent meeting with the EU partners in London the implementation of the directive was discussed: so far only THREE countries including Germany have implemente...

Some interesting news: I contacted the Austrian Embassy again to clarify. They told me that they urged the consular section of the Austrian ministry of foreign affairs for an answer. I have also been told that in a recent meeting with the EU partners in London the implementation of the directive was...

In a mail from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs I was told that spouse visas are still necessary. Their web page mentions that only Swedish residence cards (pursuant to the directive) entitle to visa free travel. Do you have a link to the web site that talks about this? There is no point in...

Hello, I just got a mail from the Austrian Embassy in London. They told me that they are aware of the directive and the Schengen handbook but are still awaiting instructions from Austria, i.e. their webpage still says that visa for non-EEA spouses would be necessary. A member of the Austrian NGO hel...

Ok, this is what the British Embassy here in Tokyo recommends: 1) Document translation: have it translated or do it yourself (and sign it) 2) go to notary public, who will affix a notarial certificate and the apostille (unlike the Foreign Ministry does, the apostille is attached on a separate page) ...

You can go to any Legal Japanese translator in your country to translate all the documents you wish to translate into English - after this you will have to authenticate these translations at the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs and then stamp them again by the UK high commission in your country...

Hi,

we will be moving soon to the UK from Japan and I was wondering how documents need to be translated to be officially acceptable, e.g. marriage, birth, residence certificates. In my country only specially approved tranlators are allowed to do this. How is the situation in the UK?