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by Jellybean105 » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:08 pm
Thank you so much Jambo.
Just thought I'd share our experience. We were returning from overseas and my husbands family permit had expired so we decided to come through Ireland as my husband has a valid Ireland resident card.
We were worried how it would work out as we had a lot of luggage as well and knew we would need to get it checked in. We entered Dublin and then went through to terminal 1. We checked in online and had our boarding passes on our mobiles.
We had booked 2 extra luggage bags in additional to 2 already included with our tickets so we had to go to the bag drop. The lady at the desk asked for our passports and when he saw my husbands Pakistani passport she flipped through it and asked if he had a visa for the UK.
My husband said he has an Ireland resident card, she had a look and then looked at us confused. She then asked a colleague next to her and she answered I think thats fine. After putting our luggage through, she looked at us again and said sorry, I'm still not 100% sure so I'll just call up and ask.
She called someone and she was explaining what kind of Ireland visa my husband had in the passport. After a while she got up and went to the lady at the BA reservations desk and showed her the docs. She came back and said yeah, its completely fine! She gave us our printed boarding passes and we went through.
There were no other checks on the way and no border controls on terminal 1 either.
Moved to Ireland: Feb 13
UK FP: Granted November 13
Ireland RC: Granted Feb 14
Returned to the UK: Feb 14
Applied for EEA2: 18th March 14
EEA2 Rejected: October 14 (re-submitted docs)
EEA2 Granted: December 14 (valid till 2019!)