giorgosa wrote:
Yes I refer to the booklet with the red cover
and your answer is so helpful for me...
Did you give a translation of this or just a copy of this(since back pages provide translate in all languages)?
I asked my wife, she confirmed me she remembers she didn't have to translate, or apostille or legalise that booklet. I've still the booklet, and surely it is not apostilled. That said, if I understood good, you say you married in Greece, so I really don't know if that may be considered as a wedding certificate, in our case has ever been accepted as such (by Turkey, which issued it, and by the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany).
Coming back to my wife's EEA FP application, she didn't made the application herself, she used the visa agency which was used by her employer at the time. She basically asked them "which documents do I need for the EEA Family Permit?", those guys gave her a list of documents, she collected the paperwork, gave them everything with the passport, they arranged the interview at the consulate a couple of days later, and she got her entry clearance (I cannot remember if that was given on the spot, but she surely had it a very few days later). I don't know if they translated anything on their own, albeit I doubt that.
An important bit, those guys of the visa agency asked stuff like:
-a document faxed by my employer in the UK to my wife in Turkey, confirming that I was one of their employees, and that they were going to accept a fax instead of the original as long as the fax number was on the the paper;
-to strengthen the application; my wife's salary papers, bank status, some photos of us together taken in different years, telephone bills, letters, etc.
- they even asked letters from my wife's employer, in this model:
Tuesday, dd MMM YYYY
British Consulate General
Istanbul
Attn: Visa Department
Mrs MY WIFE holding a Turkish passport, no. blabla, working
as blabla in our company Bla Bla A.S. Istanbul
offices since xx.mm.yyyy will be travelling to London/UK for family and travel purposes by MMMM YYYY. During her stay all of the travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by her.
We kindly ask you to grant visa for MY WIFE.
Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Bla Bla A.S. Istanbul
At the time I raised my concerns about having to get letters from her employers, I couldn't see as that could be related to me being exercising treaty rights in the UK, but I was told that would have helped the application.
