This is a question on behalf of somebody else, who asked me the question, but to which I don't know the answer (I'm the go-to person in my group for immigration issues, even for non-UK immigration, of which I know next to nothing).
The person is the citizen of an Asian country, who is likely to get a work visa to an EU/Schengen/Nordic country. The company will sponsor him, his wife and child to that country. His questions are
(a) How many days in the year can he and his family travel within the Schengen Zone outside the country for which he has got the work visa?
(b) How many days in the year can he and his family travel outside the Schengen Zone but within the EU (think Cyprus and Ireland) outside the country for which he has got the work visa?
(c) If they were to travel within the Schengen zone, as TCNs (third country nationals) with a work visa, would their passports need to be stamped when traveling within the Schengen Zone? If yes, how do they go about getting their passports stamped?
(d) Can he be seconded to carry out work anywhere within the EU, or only within the Schengen Zone or is he restricted to working only within the country whose work visa he has got? His employer has branches across Europe, the US and Canada.
(e) Would he need to carry identification if he is driving or using the ferries (i.e. using surface transport, not air transport) within the Nordic Passport Union?
(f) Can his wife and child live in another EU/Schengen country (essentially, like a frontier worker family)?
(g) What rights can he exercise as a long-term resident of an EU country, without becoming a citizen? Can he sponsor his parents and parents-in-law to either that EU country or to another EU country?
(h) Would any of the above answers change, and if so how, if he were to apply for an EU Blue Card (which he is eligible for) instead of a work visa?
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