Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:

sum1 wrote:Obviously there was not more information in the letter

Obviously? OK. I will take your word for it.

Obviously a misuse of the word :-) What I meant to say was that I have not been given more information.

"You have applied for an EEA permit as the family member of an EEA national. In view of your failure to provide satisfactory evidence that you are married as claimed, nor any sufficient evidence to satisfy me that your spouse is an EEA national as indicated, I am not satisfied that you are the fami...

The EU citizen is working in ROI (that point has been clarified by the applicant after I had made the original post) and residing there with the non-EEA national spouse. How effective and real that work is, I can't tell.

Jambo, you have made a comment in a recent thread regarding dual citizenship and made a remark about the Surinder Singh case. Would you mind clarifying your position regarding the case presented here?

Thanks but do EEA appeals cost money too? I have made the same suggestion to the applicant but the complication in this case is, I think, that the EEA spouse is also British which may carry additional risks. A possible variant of that approach is that the couple present themselves to UK immigration ...

Thanks Obie and also to you fysicus. Good to see that you guys are still around here. Obie, you are right that 'allegation' is not the right word but it still appears strange to me that the marriage certificate in itself is not sufficient and I understand the instructions for ECOs on the EUN webpage...

Right, so is this based on the recent amendments to the EEA regulations (June, I think)? Somebody else has mentioned this in another thread.

Hi all, an EEA FP has recently been refused to be issued to a third country national married to an Irish/UK dual national. Both currently live in ROI and the dual national is exercising treaty rights as a worker though it is not clear to me if work does actually take place in NI. The refusal was wor...