Non EU National married with EU National - advice please!

[Sampa]

Hello everybody!

First of all, congratulations for creating thsi website. Very helpful!
I just wanted to drop you a line to get some advice.

I'm Non EU National with student visa till 10/08 and getting married with EU National (Polish) next month in Dublin.

We're heading to Poland in January to live about 2 months and get the resident card (up to 45 days to get). We were wondering if it'd be better to take the resident card and apply for EE1 to live in UK or North of Ireland, instead of coming back to Ireland and have to wait 6,7, even 9 months and get refused!

What do you guys think?

Folks, I'd like to thank you in advance and would appreciate if you could help me in this matter.

Cheers!
Sampa

[Dimy77]

Hello everybody!

First of all, congratulations for creating thsi website. Very helpful!
I just wanted to drop you a line to get some advice.

I'm Non EU National with student visa till 10/08 and getting married with EU National (Polish) next month in Dublin.

We're heading to Poland in January to live about 2 months and get the resident card (up to 45 days to get). We were wondering if it'd be better to take the resident card and apply for EE1 to live in UK or North of Ireland, instead of coming back to Ireland and have to wait 6,7, even 9 months and get refused!

What do you guys think?

Folks, I'd like to thank you in advance and would appreciate if you could help me in this matter.

Cheers!
Sampa

If you have a residency card for Poland you'll meet the EU-1 requirement of having legal residency in another EU member state, although you'd still have to wait for about 6 months, you should be approved.

UK and Northern Ireland is definitely faster, so if it doesn't have to be Ireland go for that.

[Sampa]

Dimy77,
Thanks for replying..I appreciate that.[/quote]