My GF just left the Dutch Embassy in London a few minutes ago. Her dutch visa has been refused because her residency card is not endorsed on a passport but it is issued on a A4 paper. They gave her a letter and told to ask the home office to obtain a new label on the passport. We went to the Dutch b...

Applied on the 13th of November for both EEA1 & EE2 (myself and for my girl - unmarried family member). The 5th of December she asked her passport back which was returned the 21st of December I've requested my passport back the 27th of December (she was planning to apply for a new EEA-6months in...

after 1month and 3 days I'm still waiting for an answer from solvit. Any suggestions? (apart from call the ph. number I got in their automated reply) Contact them for an update of how things are going. Make sure to include your case reference and the date of your original submission. Today I finall...

WE ARE VISITING UK IN AUGUST and wanted a couple of weeks away from UK family in delightful delicious Espana. The embassy's arrogant ignorance is a good reason not to go to Spain. I have a sense that the German embassy visa sections are quite professionally run, and it is a lovely place to go in th...

If it helps... I'm Italian and my gf is Thai. My gf is in Australia as my partner. She also has a visa as EEA family member for the UK. I asked a family visa for my long term gf to the Italian consulate in Sydney. They refused, the only thing we got was a $A100 tourist visa valid for 6months / 30day...

Directive 2004/38/EC is the european rules under which you apply for a UK "family permit". All the other European countries have to transpose that directive into national law and you have more-or-less the same rights to enter each country (sadly currently requiring seperate application pr...

Hi, I'm an Italian national living in Sydney. My gf is Thai national and has a dependent visa based on my Student Visa as my un-married partner (defacto in AU/in-law in UK). In other words, we are NOT married but we lived together as man & wife for the last 2.5 yrs :-) She applied for a family p...