My Thai Wife To Spain...

[ardnimand]

Hi LaoPo and co.

thanks for your kind advices.

A small update, my wife in-spe has now taken back to Bangkok to get

some papers sorted out, her "civil-status" document is needed and signed

by the danish embassy in BKK. But the good news, she is away for 14 days

which means, that our deadline for marriage etc. will be postponed to 25.

october, because she can add the 14 days to her visa for schengen...

But still, the situation is a bit stressing, can't wait to get it all fixed!!

I will keep you guys updated, thanks again,

ardnimand

Khun Jean is correct here.

1. European law provides that nationals of a member country are free to exercise their various rights in any other member country, and these rights are extended to their dependants, irrespective of the dependants' nationality.

Therefore, in the OP's situation, providing his marriage to his Thai girlfriend is lawful, she will then benefit from the European rights by association with him, and they are, in theory, both free to go and live in Spain without any overly bureaucratic process.

Scouse.

1. Sorry Scouse, you're mistaken here! It does DEPENDS on the nationality, unfortunately. The so called 'rights' does NOT apply to the so called Non-Western citizens.

2. You're right here........."in theory"; in real life it doesn't work like that.

Marriage as such is NOT a free ticket for the 'dependant' to exercise her/his European laws...especially Immigration laws!

Sorry, but it is NOT true!

Believe me, I've been through that process.............

The dependant, married or not, first has to apply for a (-semi-) permanent PERMIT, before she/he can excercise the European (Immigration) Laws, not just because of a marriage.

And, I can understand these rules because, otherwise, millions of 'newcomers' to the EU/Schengen countries would simply marry during a tourist-Visa and than could become a EU-citizen....

Again: sorry, it doesn't work that way.

LaoPo