I'm not sure why the Romanian embassy would insist that you have a residence certificate. They will have their procedures of course, but the UK does not make the application of a residence certificate mandatory.

The certificate must be issued as soon as possible. If you have any concerns, contact them.

I am an irish citizen living in the uk with my non eu husband. He got a 5 year eea spouse visa (stamp in his passport) this is due to expire this year. What does he now need to apply for? He has always worked full time and has never been out of the uk except for family holidays 2-3 weeks. I no long...

Hello all, Im Spanish, and my wife is Venezuelan. Im working right know and my wife will aply for an EEA2. The thing is that we are living right now in a room, and the person who rented us the room, said to us that it was very important to not saying that we are living in this address to the govern...

Absences of up to six months will not affect the validity of the Danish residence card (or twelve months for important reasons such as work). If you leave Denmark permanently, then the card may become invalid. Your wife can apply for a UK issued residence card once in the UK. In order to use that, s...

If you qualified for a tier2 visa, benign Romanian, I cannot see how you would not have qualified for a work permit even when restrictions were in place. You may find that your road to permanent residency commenced earlier than you'd thought. There is no requirement for you to apply for a residence ...

You appear to have ILR. I propose to move your post to a more appropriate part of the forum.

You are entitled to query the result. A refusal should be clear so that the applicant understands what was at issue.

Were you given permission to appeal?

A family member of an EU citizen can apply for a visa to accompany spouse. It is likely that the authorities will expect the EU national job-seeker to have a good prospect of finding work.

Yes, the right to work is explicit in the directive.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex ... 123:en:PDF

As long as you are the family member of an EU citizen exercising treaty rights, your stay in the UK is legal.

You can choose to fight your point of principle or you can make life easy for yourself.

It is unlikely that you will be able to apply for two visas at the same time. Usually, passports are retained until visa is processed.

Read this - esp article 5

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex ... 123:pt:PDF

As others have pointed out, the right to work has not changed. It stems directly from the directive.

It is possible to enter Bulgaria as you describe, but you won't get a Schengen stamp unless you enter a Schengen country.

Regarding your original post. You do not need visa as you are not a visa national. You can choose to enter as tourists. As wife and family are EU citizens, even without passports demonstrating that, they should be allowed entry as such (provided they can prove this). You, being a family member can a...

It is possible for you and your non-EU spouse to remain in Spain as long as you are self-sufficient. This means that you need to have sufficient resources to maintain yourself and family members and that you have sickness insurance. Stays of up to three months would not require registration, those o...

Wanderer wrote:Schengen visa only allows stay for 90 days in every 180.

Perhaps for normal third country nationals. An non-EU national family member who accompanies or joins, does not overstay provided the EU national exercises treaty rights (the first three months do not require anything special).

Moved to correct forum section.

It is easier to demonstrate that one is employed.

I am inclined to believe your acquired EU rights do not expire. If you look at the advocate generals opinion in the sticky thread above (to do with changed in EEA regulations), that view appears to be supported. However, I'm not convinced that the law is yet clear on the issue and therefore suggest ...

Moved to British citizenship section.

I am moving this to the European section.

I would be inclined to detail your travel plans and request a visa that covers the time you will spend there.

I take it that you are aware that the visa will be free of charge.

Indeed there is. Thanks for pointing that out.

OK, it would have been better if you'd clarified that you were in the UK from the outset. No problem, it is clear now. In order for him to be considered to be legally resident in the UK, he requires to show that he is a worker, a student or self-sufficient person. If the latter two, he will require ...