Renew Stamp4 eu fam after divorce

[zeke1015]

Hello everyone ,I may need your advice on my situation.

I am a non eu national got married with a eu national in March 2007, holding stamp4 eu fam card for 5 years which valid till May 2012.
My wife and myself are going to get divirce in later this year as we have not been living together for 4 years by then. My wife as eu national has been living in Irealnd since she was 9 years old with her family,and was in employment from 2006 to 2009,but lost her job in later 2009,since then,starting to get social welfare till now. Myself is in full time employment all the time,and have my own limited company which providing few jobs to eu national workers.

My question is can I renew GNIB card when my current card expired after divirce.


many thanks

[Muttsnuts]

Hello everyone ,I may need your advice on my situation.

I am a non eu national got married with a eu national in March 2007, holding stamp4 eu fam card for 5 years which valid till May 2012.
My wife and myself are going to get divirce in later this year as we have not been living together for 4 years by then. My wife as eu national has been living in Irealnd since she was 9 years old with her family,and was in employment from 2006 to 2009,but lost her job in later 2009,since then,starting to get social welfare till now. Myself is in full time employment all the time,and have my own limited company which providing few jobs to eu national workers.

My question is can I renew GNIB card when my current card expired after divirce.


many thanks

You'll need to regularise your status as soon as possible after the divorce. You can make an application under the Directive for permissiont ot remain in your own right but you're goign to have problems most likely. Your mariage broke down in 2007 at some point? I'm not suggesting that your marriage was not genuine, but the Department are going to look at it as a marriage of convenience. It appears from the above that you got married, applied for EU Residence and pretty soon after receiving 5 years permission to remain, you both separated and it appears that you did not inform the DoJ.

THat would set off major alarm bells with the Dept. If I were you, I'd think about getting a solicitor involved in trying to renew your status.

[zeke1015]

Hello everyone ,I may need your advice on my situation.

I am a non eu national got married with a eu national in March 2007, holding stamp4 eu fam card for 5 years which valid till May 2012.
My wife and myself are going to get divirce in later this year as we have not been living together for 4 years by then. My wife as eu national has been living in Irealnd since she was 9 years old with her family,and was in employment from 2006 to 2009,but lost her job in later 2009,since then,starting to get social welfare till now. Myself is in full time employment all the time,and have my own limited company which providing few jobs to eu national workers.

My question is can I renew GNIB card when my current card expired after divirce.


many thanks

You'll need to regularise your status as soon as possible after the divorce. You can make an application under the Directive for permissiont ot remain in your own right but you're goign to have problems most likely. Your mariage broke down in 2007 at some point? I'm not suggesting that your marriage was not genuine, but the Department are going to look at it as a marriage of convenience. It appears from the above that you got married, applied for EU Residence and pretty soon after receiving 5 years permission to remain, you both separated and it appears that you did not inform the DoJ.

THat would set off major alarm bells with the Dept. If I were you, I'd think about getting a solicitor involved in trying to renew your status.

Thanks Muttsnuts for your reply

My stamp4 eu4 fam was based on long term partnership together with my wife more than 3 years rather than the marriage. I applied eu fam card in Sep 2006,and got it approved in May 2007. we just got married in March 2007.Hope this makes things more clear.

My wife and I met in 2002,and started to live together in 2003.

Any more advice?

thanks again

[zeke1015]

Would some one help with my question?

[fatty patty]

I think you need to be legally divorced to invoke "retaining residency on your own right" rule. In Ireland divorce process is very long one has to be legally separated for few years and then divorce but I think legally separated may be considered as being divorced, not sure. You get much better answer if you speak to a solicitor he/she will provide you a proper detailed advise relating to your specific case. Google immigration solicitors there are many around, brophy, stapleton to name a few.

[Directive/2004/38/EC]

When did you stop living together?

I should note that it is good that you are working, but very important is that your wife is/was working... Why did she stop working?

[zeke1015]

When did you stop living together?

I should note that it is good that you are working, but very important is that your wife is/was working... Why did she stop working?

Thanks for your reply first of all

we separated in Jan 2008.

She was working until Jan 2009,and lost her job cause redundancy,after that she was looking for job for a while and after few month she started to claim the Jobseekers Allowance, for the moment,. she is living on Jobseekers Allowance but still looking for jobs.