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Bgsbgs wrote: ↑Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:32 pmMy wife is trying to apply for a new Schengen visa (France ideally). However, her UK BRP (spouse of a British citizen) is expiring soon and the website says that she needs to have a UK residence permit valid for 90 days to apply (her BRP expires in September).
We will renew her BRP eventually but clearly this doesn't happen overnight (we will have it in six weeks).
Is there any way around this (other than trying to get a visa on arrival, which I don't want to risk)? Does it also apply to visas for spouses of EU citizens ?
Does any Schengen country not have this requirement and will give her a visa before her BRP is renewed?
I think you misunderstood my question (perhaps I wasn’t clear). I was asking why the French authorities care when my wife’s British residence permit expires. She will still be the wife of a British citizen after her BRP expires.Caravel88 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:25 pmYou get to benefit from the EU law if you exercise your right of Free movement. Otherwise national laws of your own country apply to you.
Unless the OP has lived in an other EU country the OP is considered British and his and his family's case will be handled under UK immigration rules.
Bgsbgs wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:33 pmI think you misunderstood my question (perhaps I wasn’t clear). I was asking why the French authorities care when my wife’s British residence permit expires. She will still be the wife of a British citizen after her BRP expires.Caravel88 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:25 pmYou get to benefit from the EU law if you exercise your right of Free movement. Otherwise national laws of your own country apply to you.
Unless the OP has lived in an other EU country the OP is considered British and his and his family's case will be handled under UK immigration rules.
Bgsbgs wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:01 pmI guess what I am getting it is that I don’t see what risk they are trying to mitigate by imposing this restriction? Most of the docs they ask for have a clear purpose (eg being able to show we can support ourselves or that we have valid travel documents).
However I can’t see the point of this requirement - surely they can’t be worried that we are trying to illegally immigrate to France given that (a) we could legally immigrate there whenever we want given free movement legislation (b) she has a high paying job in London so she is hardly going to give that up for the life of an illegal immigrant with a low paying black economy job in a country whose language she doesn’t speak...