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SPOUSE TRAVELLING TO SPAIN

Post by DaffyOnLSD » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:48 am

Me and my wife are looking to travel on holiday to Spain.
I'm a UK national, and my wife is a Ukraine national, she has a 2 year UK spousal visa. Also our marriage certificate is in ukraine, with a seperate english translation. We both reside in UK.

Does she need a visa?

Earlier this year we were travelling through Poland, so I read up about visas for spouses of EU citezens, and "sort of" understood that she would need a UK Residency card(which my wife does not have).
But when we went to the polish visa section in Manchester they told us that we don't need a visa, all we would need was a Marriage certificate. In our case with an english translation, which at the time we did not have, so they just gave her a transit visa.
Explaining that the next time we should just get a translation of the marriage certificate, and we're good to go around the EU, or perhaps they meant just Poland.
It all seems to be a bit of an EU farse.

Ta very much.

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Post by 86ti » Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:01 am


Directive/2004/38/EC
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Location: does not matter if you are with your EEA family member

Post by Directive/2004/38/EC » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:38 pm

What the polish visa section might be referring to is: http://eumovement.wordpress.com/2010/08 ... to-travel/

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