I know from personal experience that Dutch immigration accepts a EU Residence Card as substitute for a visa. In the last twelve months my wife visited Holland (entering at Schiphol airport) three times in this way (one time even travelling alone without me, a Dutch national). You can expect some del...
Visa-free travel will only be possible when people start throwing their weight about and protesting. Playing the sheep doesn't solve the problem. Richard, I couldn't agree more!! For anyone interested in their rights: http://eumovement.wordpress.com/directive-200438ec/ http://eumovement.wordpress.c...
the only advantage of PR is that you don't need to prove that you are a worker or exercising treaty rights in any other way. To keep it simple you can submit an EEA1 application for yourself and EEA2 for your husband simultaneously (i.e. in a single envelop). For now only send copies of your passpor...
The link that flyboy gives below is to a predecessor directive, not to the actual directive 2004/38 which has replaced all these predecessors with effect from 1 May 2006 (more than two years ago already). Directive 2004/38 applies without exception to all EU member states plus Norway, Iceland, Liech...
I collected a few links regarding directive 2004/38 and its implementation in the UK: the actual UK law: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20061003.htm from the Border force operations manual: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/borderforce/categoriesofpassenger/eeana...
A Residence Card should definitely not be stamped on entry in the country that issued the RC ( article 5.3 of directive 2004/38 ) However, immigration officers at UK airports are seldom aware of this rule, even though it is in force for more than two years already! My wife had her RC stamped on many...
