Moving to Ireland

[bharool]

Hi

I am a British citizen by birth and my (unmarried) partner is a non EEA national but she has a UK residence card as a family member of an EEA National that expires in July 2016. She also doesn't need a Visa to enter Ireland.

I am moving next month to be near my father, who has become rather frail, and to start a business and I was all prepared to land in Ireland early next month and complete the forms EU1 and follow due process as I have read on here. I have all the documents and tenancy agreements, bills, holidays, etc etc already in a file but it literally just occurred to me that, as she already has a residence card from another EU state, that maybe I am not doing it the right way.

I suppose the long and the short of all my waffle is two questions:-

1) Do I still follow the EU1 application route?
or
2) As she already has a residence card (albeit it expires in July 2016) is there something else I should be doing?

Many thanks

[noajthan]

Hi

I am a British citizen by birth and my (unmarried) partner is a non EEA national but she has a UK residence card as a family member of an EEA National that expires in July 2016.

...

I suppose the long and the short of all my waffle is two questions:-

1) Do I still follow the EU1 application route?
or
2) As she already has a residence card (albeit it expires in July 2016) is there something else I should be doing?

Many thanks

You are on right track...

1) My understanding: Yes. EU1 is for residence rights in Eire.

2) No, carry on.
(UK-issued RC is for residence in UK).

[bharool]

Ok that's great. I'd have hated to have wasted all that time and effort to be told I didn't need to do all that.

Thanks for the swift response.