EU family member, needs visa from london to prague?

Bikos · Post by **Bikos** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:00 pm

Hello everyone,
I am going to visit london with a UK Visit Visa and I wish to visit my family they are in Prague.
My wife and daughters they are Czech citizens and I have not applied for the residence or visa yet. We have a marriage certificate that is registered and issued in CZ. So I am to the Czech republic recognized as a husband to her.

My question is ... Will I be able to go to Prague and pass the borders with this condetion as I will be coming from an EU country and I am a family member of an EU Alien (Czech in this case as well)? May be with an onward ticket to the country of my origin?
I am an Egyptian so I do need a visa to go to CZ.

What if my wife can meet me at the airport? Would that make any chage?

Thank you and I REALLY hope it can work, as I am limited with time and my wife is terribly sick.

Thanks in advanced.

EDIT: EDITING TOPIC.

isceon · Post by **isceon** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:18 pm

Once in the uk you should apply at the cseq embassy for a shenghen visa as the spouse of an EEA family member ( you will have to prove it! marriage certificate etc...)
You should not have a problem obtaining it free of charge on a priority bases and can travel to join ur family no problem
Good luck

Bikos · Post by **Bikos** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:24 pm

isceon wrote:Once in the uk you should apply at the cseq embassy for a shenghen visa as the spouse of an EEA family member ( you will have to prove it! marriage certificate etc...)
You should not have a problem obtaining it free of charge on a priority bases and can travel to join ur family no problem
Good luck

Thank you for the reply, I was refreshing the page a lot fot that

Do you have any idea for how long this might take? as I am going to be there for like a week or so only.
Thank you very much.

isceon · Post by **isceon** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:49 pm

u will need more than a week I suppose but u can always apply and explain why u need it urgently.I am not sure about the process time for this country
http://www.mzv.eu/wwwo/default.asp?Pare ... =153&idj=2

Bikos · Post by **Bikos** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:05 am

From visa section in tne CZ embassy website at London:

FAMILY MEMBERS OF EU CITIZENS who require a visa

You can apply for a visa either in person at the Czech Embassy in London or by post. It takes about one week (maximum 14 days) to obtain a visa. It is free of charge. It is also possible to apply for a visa on arrival, at a border crossing point.

So I can ask for Visa on Arrival ? The question is even if my wife is not with me?

isceon · Post by **isceon** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:09 am

No the airline company won't even let u board unless u are a non visa cittize wich u are not.
U have to apply for a visa prior to travel to prague i am afraid.

Bikos · Post by **Bikos** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:22 am

I am afraid to say that I am an Officer for check-in, and putting myself in the postion of the check-in agent, I will have a big time trouble to get this proved.

Will see what I can do. Thank you BIG time for the support.

Post by **Directive/2004/38/EC** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:56 am

In general EU law will not apply for this application. The applicant is going to CZ to visit his CZ family. This is a matter solely of CZ law.

That said, I hope the application and visit goes smoothly.

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