When I arrive in Dublin and I am looking for a job, can I sign on at the job centre to receive job seekers allowance until I get a job? If I do so, would this jepordise my wife Residence Permit application when I get a job? When we arrive in Dublin, do I have to take my wife to the Garda to get a te...

Hi everyone. I will be arriving in Ireland on Friday with my Non-EU spouse. She was granted a Type C visa by the issuing embassy in Ankara, Turkey. I am a UK citizen. We are married. Before applying for the EU 1 Residence Card I must find employment. While I am sourcing employment is it ok for me to...

My wife got issued a Type C visa with the reference Spouse of an EU citizen. Duration of the visa states XX - Reading it, Type C visa is a visit visa. Yes - we did apply for a visit visa for my wife and I will accompany her to travel there. This should be valid for 3 month from entry. We fly to Dubl...

Ok. Seems no one had the answers or suggestions. So here is my experience 1. Posted the visa application for my non EU spouse to enter Ireland as a visitor with me travelling with her, from outside the EU. Posted to Ankara, Turkey. Got the visa issued 5 working days later. 2. As far as I have read, ...

Hey nad2107.

I got an email this morning saying the visa has been issued and is ready for collection. They are going to post it out to us today.

5 days it took. Hope yours is just as fast

thanks for that. I will have a look on there now.

I am from Manchester, UK. Just the Mrs and her family who is from Azerbaijan. So rubbish living apart isn't it.

Would you mind sharing with my how you sourced your accommodation and work?

What are the rental rates like? Deposits? Agency fees etc? What part of Dublin?

I specialise in Accounting.

We got married in January 2011 in the UK. She then had to return home. She stayed at home 6 months and I had a visit in between and then I went back to the UK. She then applied for a family visit visa but they refused (couldn't apply for a spouse as she was under 21 (rules since changed). I'm in Aze...

Ankara, Turkey - no indication of how long it will take. This information is not displayed on the website.

I've sent the embassy dealing with it an email 2 days asking how long but had no reply yet.

Hope this all works out.

Yeah - we're waiting to. We sent our on Monday and it would have arrived Wednesday or Thursday.

Do you have any ideas how long they take to process?

Where did you send your application? Ours had to be sent to Ankara, Turkey

Hi there. Me and my partner are in similar circumstances. We are currently in Azerbaijan together. I have been here 3 weeks. We made our application for a visit visa for my wife to accompany me to Ireland (she is from Azerbaijan). We stated in the letter we are applying under the Directive/2004/38/E...

Hi everyone, I am a UK citizen. My wife is a NON-EU citizen, she is from Azerbaijan. I will below post my experience with the Irish, the Residence Card application and other EU related visa topics. Irish visit visa applied for on 17 November 2011 (FREE) Irish visit visa issued on 24 November 2011 (F...