Wanderer wrote:NI folks are automatically UK and Irish Citizens, I would venture that a passport is only a travel document but I would agree proof is better served by having one.
Only on production of an Irish passport by the sponsor would an EEA Family Permit application be considered.
But the issue is whether the Turkish national qualifies for a family permit if effectively he's not going to live with his wife. I suspect the ECO would say not, because the EEA regulations require that:-
"the family member will be accompanying the EEA national to the United Kingdom or
joining him there"
It's difficult to believe that the reg means that having accompanied the spouse to the UK or joined him/her there, the "family member" can shove off and live with his own family for extended periods. Such a scenario would also invoke the accusation that it's a marriage of convenience, but that would also depend on how long they've been married and how much time they've previously spent together elsewhere.
