Article 10 Residence Card

“qualifying EEA State residence card” wrote:means a valid document called a “Residence card of a family member of a Union Citizen” issued under Article 10 of Council Directive 2004/38/EC(5) (as applied, where relevant, by the EEA agreement) by any EEA State (except Switzerland) to a non-EEA family member of an EEA national as proof of the holder’s right of residence in that State;

Manosdaria wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:09 pm

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Hello i want to ask if that is an article 10.
I am British/Cypriot. I borned and live in cyprus.
Now i live three months now in UK. And i want to flight next week with my wife. My wife is from ukraine. We will flight with our son 9 months old. We dont know if accepted the permit. I hold british and cypriot passport my son also cypriot passport. We need for apply for visa. Is the permit.on photo article 10 or 20 ? Thanks a lot

thobson wrote: ↑

Fri May 04, 2018 11:06 pm

I'm in a very similar position to you, I'm British, living and working in Germany with my Russian wife who holds an article 10 residency card. We've now been to the UK a couple of times using only the residency card. We've had no issues at the UK border. On both occasions we flew into Manchester and the immigration officers were great. My wife did need to fill in a landing card and we showed them her residency card. To be honest the only thing they asked was "are we married?" and "do we live in Germany together?" We didn't need to show any marriage certificates, proof of employment or anything like that. My wife got a special stamp which is something like "admitted under the EEA regulations 2006 - no time limit". The officer told us my wife basically has full EU freedom of movement rights in the UK. Of course your experience may be different and you won't get the warm northern welcome at a London airport but in any event the law is very much on your side.

Whilst the immigration officers were great, the biggest challenge you will face is trying to get onto the plane in the first place. At the gate the airline staff will want to see your wife's UK visa and will probably refuse (at least initially) to let her on without a valid UK visa. The whole EEA family permit is a bit of a corner case, especially for UK ex-pats and the airline staff just don't know this rule. To be fair to them, it's pretty suspicious to say "I don't need a UK visa as I have a Cypriot/German residency card". You will need to stand your ground and explain the rules. I recommend you print off the rules about entering the UK with an article 10 card. I would also take your marriage certificate with you because the article 10 card probably doesn't state the name of the EEA spouse (ours doesn't) and your wife should be traveling with you or joining you. i.e. you need to prove the person holding her hand in the airport is actually her husband! One Easyjet guy did know the rules and he wanted to see our marriage certificate and also details of my wife's return flight. I'm not sure the flight details are strictly necessary but we had them anyway.

My advice would be to go to the airport gate in good time. You may also be able to get your boarding pass stamped at customer services before reaching the gate. Good luck!

mmtdrsn wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:20 pm

Hi, this is exactly the situation I am in and I am flying with Ryanair this Friday to the UK so have been worrying a lot: I am Turkish, married to a British and we both live and work in Germany. I hold a Article 10 Residence card though it does not say the wording "Family Member of an EU Citizen" in English but in German. it's not a biometric snazzy card, it's just a flimsy long piece of paper but it does say the above in German. So essentially it's the correct Article 10 Residence card.

Do you think this will be a problem for UK officer that my card doesn't say anything in English? I have printed all the guidelines and will take everything with us and I am well prepared to take this to the court if they deny my boarding because I have every right and we are just visiting. Just because bloody ryanair doesn't know the rules, I won't let it go.

Bouba1985 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 22, 2019 7:39 pm

Hello Jimmy James.


I have a just 2 question & I hope to get some advice from you.
1.when u apply for residence card (article 10) is entry Visa required?
2.can spouse of eu citizen apply for Visa at the border in Nicosia?
I'm third country national who's Visa required to Cyprus.
Me und my Irish-British wife we thinking to go to Cyprus and apply for residence card for,& we need some advice please.
To visa at border it's because I'm not Visa required to northern Cyprus.
Thanks in advance Jimmy