Being married to your employed French partner in the UK entitles you to all the Rights of an EU Partner.

 

Hi there

If you get married in the UK you got to do thisin my opinion this is the best option for you!)

"A completed EEC1 form (A complete EEC1 form (available from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate’s website at www.homeoffice.gov.uk or by telephoning the application unit on 0870 241 0645.
Your EEA national family member’s passport or identify card and you passport together with evidence of your relationship, for example a marriage certificate, birth certificate.
If you fall within the category of family member that requires that you are dependent on the EEA national, evidence which demonstrates that you are dependent on the EEA national.
Evidence to show that your EEA family is working, self-employed, studying, etc in the United Kingdom"

And thats it.

If you want/have to marry in France you can apply for family permit,which would require:

"If you wish to apply for an EEA family permit you should complete form IM2A which you can get free of charge from the nearest British Mission offering an entry clearance service.

You should check with the British Mission that they are able to process your application if they cannot, they will advise you where to apply.

Your application form may be submitted by hand or by post together with:

your passport (in certain countries it may be inadvisable to send your passport through the post);
two recent passport-sized photographs;
your family member's passport, or a photocopy of the biographical details;
proof of the relationship between you and your family member (if your spouse is applying we will need to see proof that you are lawfully married, ie your marriage certificate);
May need proof of EEA National exercising Treaty rights in the UK.
The entry clearance officer may then be able to decide your application without further enquiries. However, you may have to attend an interview, and in addition you may be asked for further documents. In any case, your application be decided as a matter of priority, and without undue delay, in all cases.
If you require further information on this issue, please contact: UK Visas London SW1A 2AH fax: 020 7008 8359 or on the Internet: www.ukvisas.gov.uk "



Regards

Triple H

 

Co-habitation/same sex relationship for the purposes of immigration is only recognised in the Netherlands and a couple of European countries. The UK doesn't recognise co-habitation for the purposes of immigration.

 

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I belive that the UK immigration laws are sometimes complicated but fair.You just have to follow the rules :read: and there is no problems.

Good luck to you!

 

Hello,

I'm a US citizen and I got married in France. Marriage in France is a bit painful administration-wise.

I don't think you can get married in France - at least not easily. In order to get married in France, you or your fiancee needs to have lived in France at the same location for 3 months prior to the wedding. You must get married at the mairie in your town of residence. Since both of you live in the UK, you wouldn't satisfy these requirements.

You should get married in the UK. I don't know the marriage laws in the UK, but I know that France wouldn't be an option for you.

 

Re: Update

If your lawyer has precedence to rely on then I will suggest you go for it. The issue of relationships and recognition of partners is not subject to EU Law but rather State Laws.

Ths is the reason why gay marriages/co-habiting (for the purposes of immigration) are recognised in the Netherlands but not in the UK or Ireland. In either case there are always some loopholes in the law which one could take advantage of.

If your lawyer does have precedence under UK Law, just go for it and let us hear from you soon.

Good luck!!!

 

Its not that straight forward, even if you get married to a french citizen!! You have to apply for an indefinitive leave to remain in the home office providing your girlfriend can prove that she has been working in the uk at least 4 years. If she was already british then you would get one year leave then you could apply for undefinitive leave to remain. So basically your girlfriend has also to apply for indefinitive leave to remain ,with you and if she hasnt done it and she hasnt worked in the uk for 4 years she will first of all get 5 years residency, you will then get 5 years as well, you will be allowed to work but won't be allowed to claim any benefits if you don't work. If your girlfriend was already given 5 years residency and lets say she has 2 years left then you will be given 2 years, Then you will have to wait until she applies for indefinitive leave to remain. I know because i was in that case.

 

Employment in France for spouse of EU Citizen??

Hi!

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am an American married to an Austrian, living in Germany, on the French border. As a spouse of an EU citizen, I have had no problem working in Germany; however, I would like to now keep my residency in Germany and work just over the border in Strasbourg, FRANCE. Does anyone know if this is possible and what I would need to do to obtain my visa? Thanks !!!

Valerie

 

Sorry! I posted at the wrong place

I just realized that I posted a response and wanted to post a new topic. Sorry about that!!

 

Re: Employment in France for spouse of EU Citizen??

Under EU Law, Germany is your host country where you have Rights. It doesn't matter if you live even 2 minutes from the nearest French town that right does not extend to French territory. Unless your husband have certain Economic Rights in France which entitles you to Establish there.

On the other hand a new EU Directive for third-country nationals who have a permanent residence in one EU State to be able to move and estblish in another is supposed to kick in come April 2006. There haven't been much information forthcoming on this Directive so we just have to wait until then to ask the relevant authorities.

 

TSG - I really feel for you. The same almost happened to me. My lawyer (from the Immigration Advisory Service no less) told me it would be fine to get an EEA Family Permit for my US partner as we had been co-habitating for over two years. We therefore went to the British Consulate in Paris, who took one look at our application and told us we had to be married. They advised us not to hand in the application as they would just refuse it, Hence, despite swearing I would never get married to satisfy a government, that is precisely what I am going to do this October. I'm not sure what your best course of action is now, though, good luck.

 

Lawyers WILL say what they want, and will actually claim that this and that is possible. If you look at your situation, and the Home Office website has information on your specific situation, then you don't even need a lawyer to fill out the forms. This is how lawyers make alot of money, from the ignorance of people. Read and do some research, ask people in forums, not only this one of course, but since you're here, might as well ask us. I'm sure someone will have an answer to certain situations, maybe not all.

I come from the US, where immigration forms are complicated and sometimes hard to understand for the majority of people, and that's why they get lawyers. I do some research, ask questions, and then fill out the forms myself. Never been refused on any paper I filed. Of course I made sure that I submitted whatever documentary evidence they needed or asked.

No offense to lawyers (I've got a few in my family), but remember, it's your ignorance (or laziness) that they live off on. Get a lawyer when you REALLY need one.

 

I completely agree. At least mine was a free lawyer, but when she told us we didn't need to be married, I asked her why it didn't mention co-habitation in any of the Home Office websites. She said they wanted to make it seem harder than it was to stop people coming in (bearing in mind she was from the Immigration Advisory Service now I can see she didn't know much about EU law) and that she'd managed to get co-habitating partners in under the Family Permit. She basically laughed my worries away, and because my partner and myself wanted to believe her, we left it at that. I will never make that mistake again, I should have trusted my instincts about the info from the Home Office and in the end we wasted a few hundred pounds going to Paris to file for the Family Permit. At least it didn't cost me more, but I cannot stress enough - do your own research as well. And this forum has been invaluable in that regard

 

I am Brazilian with a Student Visa my girl friend is FRENCH, whom am intending to marry and stay together with in the UK. She was working before but recently stopped, due to medical grounds she could work if she choose to. but she decided not to work.

She has some saving and could present a statement showing a reasonable amount of money in her account.

Although am currently a student and not working, i had done some businesses in the past and also have some savings in my account.

My question is: in our stuation, can we get married and apply to the home office for a stay and for how long will the stay be if granted. Could i pursue a british or a french citizenship and when.

Any help and advice is most appreciated.

 

hi there

my visa has expired and me and my partner decided to get married.
I saw that the laws have changed from 1 february that
marriage will not be allowed if the in registry office i will not
present a way of permission to be in the country
since at the moment i can not provide it

what you think i can do