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see the email reply from italy london office!!Guerro wrote:No visa required if you are travelling with or joining your eea spouse. Remember to take your civil partnership certificate with you
mcovet wrote:dear sir, please note that you will need a visa as you are not classed a family member of an eea national for italians. However, you are classed a person in a durable relationship duly attested and therefore they should assist you in obtaining a visa and any denial must be justified. So, apply with the docs required and pay the fee and you will get a Schengen visa 100%. The problem of not recognising civil partnerships is quite a large scale issue (the French have exactly the same rules) so you will have to put up with this crap for a long time when going to places like that.
One piece of advice, why don't you go through Belgium (or the Netherlands) which recognise same gender partnerships and you won't need a visa when entering together. From there, you can go anywhere you like in Continental Europe without a visa and problem solved! That would of course involve taking a train/plane to Belgium and then another train to Italy, but at least this is a solution for short term arrangements where you don't have time to get the visa.
No, we will go to germany fro xmas anyway for 10 days, so I will still use the visa, and compare to travel to italy fro few days, germany is still my main destination...EUsmileWEallsmile wrote:If one holds a residence card, then one should be exempt from visa requirements. I think the Italian interpretation is rather unfair and restrictive. They would for example recognise a residence permit from Germany issued under Germany's immigration laws (I note your partner is German).
By the way, I don't think the Germans would take too kindly in dealing with make free visa applications for people who do not actually intend to enter Germany. They would be entitled to refuse to issue a visa if you told them as much. One is supposed to apply to the country of main destination.
I know, but look at second post above, i even quote their own website, but they just ignore about my eea2 card, only focus on civil partnership!!!EUsmileWEallsmile wrote:That would be fine then. I still don't see why Italy should not allow entry with your residence card in the first instance.
If you are going to Germany via Italy, then you shouldn't have a visa problem.
It would be worth making a complaint to Solvit Germany regarding Italy's position. It may result in the advice the embassy give changing (for others even if there's not enough time for you).