Countries That Don'T Need To Apply For Visa For Thai Wife

[irishken]

hi all. could some please post about countries were i would not need to apply for visa for my wife. i want to show her around europe area but i am sick of the hassle of applying for visa. apparently visa for the spouse of EU are free but some of there websites are still charging up to 80 euros without even be assured of being approved.

plus i need to take time off work as my wife would not be able to find the embassy. i was thing maybe counties like turkey with grant a visa on arrival.

would be travelling from ireland

anyone have experience of visas been granted on arrival

thanks

[PST]

Try googling 'countries that dont require a visa for Thai nationals.

You'll be surprised.

PST.

[7by7]

According to this list the only countries in Europe she can travel to without obtaining a visa in advance are Andorra, Russia and some of the former Soviet republics.

Remember that once she has a Schengen visa it is valid for all the Schengen states. If touring she should apply to the embassy of the country which you will visit first.

Unless the fee has recently been increased, the normal cost is 60 Euros and, as you rightly say, should be free to the spouse of an EU national; although in the UK some embassies insist on applicants making an appointment via a premium rate phone line!

Which countries are charging 80?

Remember, also, that if you wish to visit the UK on your tour that the UK, like the RoI, is not a Schengen state so she will need to obtain a separate UK visa.

No visa application is assured of being approved; any fee charged is for the processing of the application, not for the visa.

[irishken]

the uk are charging 85 euros and you must pay online before you submit your application which gets me so angry. i know a visa for spain is free but then you have to pay for a visa for france so i think a lot of them are just money making.

i have seen this listod countries in which she doesnt need a visa but what i don't understand is my landlord who has a wife from malaysia recently went to france and was granted a visa there and i dont think she needed a re entry visa to ireland so its a bit hit and miss in the responses i'm getting.

also a chinese friend said she went to england with no visa.

According to this list the only countries in Europe she can travel to without obtaining a visa in advance are Andorra, Russia and some of the former Soviet republics.

Remember that once she has a Schengen visa it is valid for all the Schengen states. If touring she should apply to the embassy of the country which you will visit first.

Unless the fee has recently been increased, the normal cost is 60 Euros and, as you rightly say, should be free to the spouse of an EU national; although in the UK some embassies insist on applicants making an appointment via a premium rate phone line!

Which countries are charging 80?

Remember, also, that if you wish to visit the UK on your tour that the UK, like the RoI, is not a Schengen state so she will need to obtain a separate UK visa.

No visa application is assured of being approved; any fee charged is for the processing of the application, not for the visa.

[7by7]

Like the RoI, the UK is not a Schengen state so the fee charged is the UK visa fee, not the Schengen fee.

If the French embassy in Dublin is charging for Schengen visas for spouses of EU nationals then they are breaking the Schengen rules.

Presumably your landlord's wife has some sort of multiple entry Irish visa which allows her to leave and re-enter the Republic.

I cannot comment on your Chinese friend without knowing more about her actual nationality(ies). But there are few, if any, immigration controls between the RoI and the UK and so it is very easy to leave one and enter the other without ever having your passport checked. However, anyone who goes from the RoI to the UK, or vice versa, without the appropriate visa, or a nationality which means they don't need one, is entering the country illegally.