Hi Italybound.
Italybound wrote:Yes he is Irish born, but everyone else talked about EU Fam 4, so I was just wondering.
Unless your spouse exercised a Treaty right in another Member State and subsequently returned to Ireland, your right to reside is governed by Irish national law - not EU law - hence you get Stamp 4 rather than Stamp 4 EUFam. Not an awful lot of difference, practically speaking, unless you are a visa-required national and plan to travel to other Member States.
Italybound wrote:The main reason I thought there was something different was that the girl in FAS said to the other 'She is here on her own.'
I'd take that with a pinch of salt. Stamp 4 means "permitted to remain in Ireland until a specific date". As well as spouses of Irish citizens, Stamp 4 is the stamp number granted to a range of other non-EEA nationals, including, for example, successful asylum seekers.
Italybound wrote:Should I apply for the permanent residency as well? Or leaveit until 2014,
I'm not 100% on this, but I believe that spouses of Irish nationals, since their right to reside is decided by Irish national law and not EU law, may apply for permanent residency only after 8 years of "reckonable residence" in the State, the same as any other non-EEA national is.
Italybound wrote:i ownder if the premanent residency will look bettter in my passport if we end up in Italy?
Makes no odds.
sideshowsue wrote:Good god, the amount of paperwork they require for permanent residency. Thanks for posting the link for the application, but the sheer mountain of paperwork is enough to give me the vapours!
Another pinch of salt. Proof of your relationship to the EEA national, proof that the EEA national has been exercising Treaty rights for the last 5 years, together with proof of residency for at least the last 5 years should be all you need to submit, apart from the application forms.
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