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Hi Kazana, I am about to move to Ireland next month as well. I am Italian and my husband is Argentinian, we have been living in Spain for four years now and I have called diferent Garda stations to know what he had to do in order to work there, I am pregnant and he has a real good job offer in Cork. I wonder, when did you make the papers for your wife? Was it a Dublin? I called Dublin and they said exactly the same thing you say, but in Cork they talked about the EU1....kazana wrote:Hi Lynette,
I've got some good news for you:
I'm German, and my wife is South African. We had absolutely no problem moving to Ireland together (the Republic that is). We even got here without a job, visum or whatever - neither of us.
Since I'm an EU national, my wife was able to get an unlimited work visa without much hassle. Sure, we had to get it at the GNIB (g..something national immigration board), but that was no problem at all.
Only thing is, that as South African you need to renew your working visa every year, and that can be quite frustrating, sitting in the waiting room every time again.
Other than that, though, they can't refuse your right to seek employment as long as you're married to an EU citizen.
Usually, there's no need to worry about it. As long as both of you can afford the stay until you find a job, you'll be perfectly fine. As I've said before, we moved to Dublin with nothing but some money, our passports and our marriage certificate and we're both settled in Dubs now.
I can imagine that Northern Ireland has some more restrictive rules, especially since neither of you have an UK residency permit by default, unlike the laws governing EU countries, where no EU citizen (and his/her spouse) may be refused to stay.
Either way, good luck to both of you, and if you need any more information or assistance, don't hesitate to contact us through this board.
Greetz,
Brendon
You give the Irish government too much credit...this E.U1 fiasco is not a test on young couples to see if they are in genuine marriages.Lynette wrote:Hi archigabe,
I have been reading through all the postings on some of the forums for a while now and discussed the various replies with my husband, who is the EU member in my case. We are both planning to move to the Republic next year from South Africa. He mentioned a striking point. All the couples in my postings appeared to be newly married i.e. 2 maybe 3 years. It made no difference whether the couple had been living together before getting married. I know Ireland is rather traditional ! My husband and I have been married 10 years. Do you know of any other couple who has been married longer than 5 years on this Board ? Ireland may be using this EU1 fiasco against non-EU spouses as a delaying process to see whether young marriages are genuine ! Please understand I am just trying to make some kind of comparison here … I am not saying that newly married couples are the problem. I would love to hear your comments on this and anyone else’s out there, especially those who are from other non-EU countries but have been married a long time and can prove this with old bills, rental agreements etc ….
Kind regards
Lynette