Re: Rules for a non-eu person to marry a soon-to-be eu perso

Hi,
First of all, the general rule is that when you marry a EU person, you get the same rights than this person. Therefore if you marry a Finnish person, and you want to live in France for example, you will not need a visa and other such papers to find a job. Your ID will be enough (and depending on the country you might have to apply for a resident permit but that's just an admin process). Anyway you are strongly advised to sort out all the papers to become EU citizen before in the country that your EU partner is from.

For Estonia, unfortunatly it's a bit more tricky! Yes they will become part of the EU next year. But first they are not part of the Schengen area where you even do not need ID to circulate, but also other older EU country are thinking about applying some restriction to welcome the Eastern Europe population (see Holland for example that wants to limit to 22000 per year the new EU citizens to come).

So anyway, the first thing to do is take information with the consulate...

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Re: Rules for a non-eu person to marry a soon-to-be eu perso

Hi Coyan,

Thanks again for you information here.
I think part of the reason why things seem a bit confusing, is because they are very complicated :shy:

Basically, I would say that the general rules when you marry a EU citizen are:
-> you can acquire the nationality of your EU partner according to the immigration rules of your partner's country;
-> you inheritate from the EU rights of your partner in other EU countries according the European Union treaty.

Feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood the rules or if my explanation needs to be more accurate.

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