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✎ EN Family permit for my US wife

Discussion in 'Immigration UK' started by jason.o.miller, Aug 27, 2015.

  1. jason.o.miller

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    Hi,

    There may be more questions to follow, but for now, does anyone know whether I need to get my Austrian passport translated for my wife to use it in her Family Permit application to the UK embassy? Each heading does have the English equivalent printed next to it (eg "Staatsangehorigkeit/Nationality"), but the information will be in German only (eg "Osterreich", "Wien")

    Many thanks
     
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    As you said, each leading on all passports has equivalent (even on one of the page you've got the numbers referred in different languages for EU passports). When you travel abroad (within the EU - for other countries you may need a visa and therefore checks are done before), customs in airports do not need translations to check passports, and in addition, with nowadays passports they can also check the validity electronically. Therefore I don't see the need for a translation, especially within EU.

    However for some other countries (Arabic, Chinese) there might be a need.
     
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