From personal experience, I would advise you that the Spanish are extremely arrogant when it it comes to recognising third country marriages and would suggest that, if possible, you apply for a Visa for your husband (free, as an EU/EEA family member) as he does not have the type of residency that wi...
Apologies, I must have missed the part about being born before 2006 and should have known better that Vinny would have been correct! On a personal note, I find it quite wrong that the proven father couldn't pass down his nationality if the parents weren't actually married and that when the law was a...
Chidren's father's status is irrelevant as father is unmarried. Does not satisfy the meaning of " parent ". If the partner is listed on the birth certificate(s) as the father, or parentage can be proven by a DNA test, then this satisfies the definition of parent in the document that this ...
If travelling alone, he will need to apply for a Visa, pay the fee (60 Euros) and provide all the documentation required. It seems that Visas are processed at the High Commission in London and there is a phone number to call to make an appointment as well as a downloadable application form here. If ...
Hi all, We would like to travel to Disneyland Paris for our daughter's first birthday. My wife and daughter are british passport holders and myself on indefinite leave to remain in UK. I have been browsing thru forums and the french embassy website but did not find any solid answers as to whether I...
That the Spanish are so arrogant and rude to deny the validity of a Moroccan (or any other third country) marriage 3 years after the fact just makes my blood boil! My husband and I encountered this when we married and met with the Spanish Consul himself when we applied for a visa to enter Spain from...
Hi Laura I responded to your PM earlier but have just seen your post here which actually answers some of the questions that I asked you. My feeling is that you shouldn't have too much of a problem with the EEA FP once you are married, but the problem may be actually getting married. If your Fiance's...
Hi there I would take Directive's advice and immediately apply again with a very direct statement that there is NO requirement for him to be a qualified person and that both he and you have the right of entry that is unconditional. The fact that he was in the UK previously is irrelevent as he left a...
My husband recently got issued with an EEA FP from the UK Embassy in Morocco. He has a prior conviction and prison sentence in Spain (for a bar fight...) which we mentioned on the application form without any real details as we don't have any. It appears that the ECO made all the checks themselves a...
Sorry for the delay in posting! We have been really busy getting things settled and sorted and were without internet for a few days. Rachid arrived at Gatwick and managed to find his way to the Immigration desk. They managed to figure out that he spoke spanish and found an officer to speak with him ...
Thank you everyone for all the supportive comments. :lol: I can hardly believe that I am now planning to collect Rachid from the airport in 12 hours time! I have just spoken to him and he has his passport with EEA Permit endorsed and is on his way to catch his flight. (Ok, I told him he needed to be...
I can hardly believe that I am posting this, but I got a phone call from the UK Embassy in Rabat this morning telling me that they received the information that they were waiting for, all was now fine and he was issuing the EEA Family Permit! Rachid is travelling to Rabat tomorrow to collect his pas...
Sorry mate, but your wife is british and lives in britian, and you live in India, so which ec directive is there to help you as she isnt excercising treaty rights? Freedom of movement itself is a Treaty right and entry to EEA member states is a right that they hold. For all member states except the...
I am now back in the UK, no Rachid yet. Daily calls to the UK Embassy in Rabat result in the same reply that they are still waiting for information and can give me no indication of when they will be able to make a decision. Because they still have his passport, the Spanish Consulate advised us to wa...
Tracey, what an ordeal. I have had some frustrations of my own as a British person married to a Moroccan national. I have only just found this thread and was about to offer my 2-bits to you about the recognition of marriage document required by the Spanish but your story has already reached this po...
Tracy, I feel for you both. Do I read correctly that in a week's time (or less), Rachid will have an EEA FP, and will also have a visa for Spain? If so, and especially in the case of the latter, I'd love to be there when you subsequently arrive at the Ceuta border with it. Hope the same immigration...
My husbands family permit was approved :D . third time lucky! Im glad we applied again and didnt wait for an appeal. The difference with this application and the other 2 that were refused was that we gave them a copy of our flights to london to show that I would be flying with my husband, where las...
Tracy, I empathise, I know we disagree on our respective interpretations of whether you qualify under EU law but there comes a time when you have to knuckle under, for the sake of your sanity. My advice is go the UK route, the rules are simple compared to EEA law, there's little leeway that can't b...
Well, I am officially beaten..... Unfortunately, we fell at the first hurdle on Monday and have had a few traumatic days since. After we collected our marriage certificate translated into spanish, we popped into the spanish consulate to just see what they could or couldn't do. To cut a long story sh...
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the UK port. Best of luck to you both. but I will also printout and complete the EEA FP application form. I'm not sure I follow you on this though ^^^ ? Presumably there is already some record of Rachid's previous application in the system, and I will have a copy...
EDIT: Crossed posts with you Tracy, sorry. EDIT 2: Tracey, sorry, does Rachid now have a valid EEA FP? Rachid doesn't have an EEA FP, nor a visa to enter Spain yet. It is possible that the refusal is overturned by the ECM here in Morocco, but even if it happens tomorrow, we no longer have the time ...
we then plan to drive to Calais and get the ferry across to the UK where I intend to insist on us being allowed to enter together under the Surinder Singh ruling. Would you not just enter the UK on your Spanish passport and save yourself the grief? I don't have a Spanish passport currently and unfo...
Time for an update... 2 days ago, after more than 3 weeks of running around getting documents together and waiting for them to be approved, Rachid and I finally got married here in Morocco. (Yay!) Our Marriage Certificate is being translated into Spanish and we will collect it on Monday morning. I n...
