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adedayoh wrote:Hi happy,
I am so happy for you, my husband went to submit his application and stupid vfs staffs are telling him he supposed to select visiting as the purpose for travel. I told him to insist he's join eea spouse. The requirement for visiting is different. I had to call vfs office from London. Spoke to the manager and am so upset right now, they confuse ppl mess up the application and give the embassy an easy way out. He applied at vfs Abuja. He's still there right now am hoping they sort it. Have told him it's not visiting. It's a short stay visa to join eea national spouse.
@adedayoh,adedayoh wrote:Hey happy,
We finally got it sorted, it took calling the embassy for the ignorant vfs staffs to accept the join eea application. Fingers crossed the embassy won't take forever to get bk to us. Will update you when he gets it. When r u n ur daughter travelling to Ireland.
Wow !!! I don't believe this. Are u for real???!! That's absurd. Maybe they made him apply for long stay because those people can be funny at times.adedayoh wrote:hi happy,
am so upset right, so the stupid ignorant visa officers in Nigeria refused my husbands visa on the fact that he didn't include enough proof that he is joining me.
in the visa application i provided an airline ticket to show that i will be travelling to Dublin from London before him. we included a letter stating that i will be picking him from the airport.
i know the law doesn't require all that but i did it anyway and the stupid visa officer literally decided to breach my right as an eu citizen by saying no.
i intend to send a nasty letter to the embassy, report to solvit and also have my husband appeal the decision.
i will keep you posted on the progress. did you and ur daughter arrive safely in Ireland.
adedayoh wrote:Hi happy,
He applied for a short stay (c) join eea spouse visa. We will appeal the decision because I believe the visa officer is totally ignorant and doesn't understand the directives. I refused to give them the satisfaction when I know they have incompetent untrained staff members.
I am a qualified lawyer both in the UK and Nigeria And I am well versed in EU law and fully understand the Directives so they chose the wrong person to mess with.
The application was received by the embassy on the 29th Sep and a refusal letter was issued on the 1st of Oct, really fishy I say. It took 2days .
They are just silly, the visa officer said we didn't not satisfy the requirement of s3(1) because they don't believe I intend to exercise my treaty rights. Even though the guideline note on INIS's clearly states that an application can not be refused because the eu spouse is not in the country as long as they will be in the country before the arrival of their non eu spouse, One will assume that the fact that I included a one way ticket will show that I don't intend to go back to the UK soon.
My ticket is for 11th Nov and on my husbands application he stated that he intends to travel on the 30th Nov and mentioned in the cover letter that I will be picking him up from Dublin airport, is that not enough to prove I will be exercising my rights before his arrival.
The stupid visa officer also said I didn't include proof of accommodation even though this is clearly not a requirement, I could be sleeping on the streets of Dublin in the first 3 months dats absolutely none of their business. Just for the sake of it, we did include an address where we will be stay I guess the visa officer was either too stupid, blind or they didn't even bother reading the application and that was why it took a day to make a decision.
I actually spent 4hrs last night writing my husbands appeal letter for him and he will go and send it today. I included evidence to show that I have every intention of living in Ireland. I have emails of jobs I applied for even before my husband made his application, and correspondence from several employers acknowledging my application and some inviting me for assessment.
If all this does show intention to exercise my treaty rights then lord help Ireland cos I will sue them faster than they can say 'Aye .
I will keep you updated on the progress.
Ps; I sent INIS the nastiest letter ever letting them know I can help train their staffs for free cos it seems they all don't have a clue about how to do their jobs. Lol