Moving from Ireland

[rafo]

Hi,
I am Portuguese married to a Brazilian. We have been living in Ireland for almost 1 year now and my wife has been waiting for her residence card for almost 9 months. Her temporary visa (join spouse) was valid for only one month and therefore is expired (she has not left the country since then).
During the last month I travelled to UK and had some interviews. Last week I got an offer which I want to accept.
Now I want to know if it would be possible for me to travel along with my wife (whose passport has an expired visa) and apply for her residence card in there.
Thanks for the attention,
Rafael

[John]

I think your wife needs to make an application for an EEA Family Permit at the British Embassy in Dublin.

[yankeegirl]

Rafo,

When you applied for the residence card for your wife to remain in Ireland, did they send you a letter stating anything to the effect that the application was received, is under consideration etc? If so, you may want to include that with your family permit application just to make sure the British embassy knows that she is legally in Ireland, if the visa in her passport has expired.

[rafo]

No, they did not send anything... they do not answer phone calls and neither email messages. They do not respect Immigrants...
I have just called the Immigration Council (non governament organisation) and they said Ireland is refusing residence visa to spouses of Europeans if the non-European partner has not lived in another European country (part of EU) before coming to Ireland. I wonder this could be a trend for the other European countries as well...
I think we are going to hire an immigration lawyer to deal with our situation.
Thanks anyway.
Rafael