![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
We have just returned from a short break in Europe. It was fabulous until we arrived at passport control in Dublin and were harangued by an official there.
Basically he stated my wife has been living in Ireland illegally and he had every right not to allow her re-entry. This was despite:
1) us having an email from the DoJ stating that, as a non-visa required national she should have no problems re-entering should we want to leave the country temporarily. (Quite vague I know) "This means nothing."
2) an acknowledgement slip for receipt of our EU-1 application. "They send acknowledgement letters on headed paper. This is highly unusual."
The problem was my wife only has the stamp she got when she arrived 4 months ago saying she had to report to the GNIB. Of course, we did that but were told we couldn't get any kind of stamp while the EU-1 application is being processed.
The official allowed us entry but insisted we get onto the DoJ and get her status regularised. I wanted to tell him that we would love to do that but my head hurts from banging my head against a wall. It was difficult enough for me to convince my wife that we live in Ireland. Now I'm getting quite disheartened myself. We are scheduled to travel again soon but I don't know if either of us can face that crap again.