Can a non EEA family member work right away in UK?

[IainBusby]

We just moved back in UK recently from Prague,my husband is brit and I've got a Czech residency(but i'm filipino) so do I have to wait for the family permit of I could go straight to work?

Hope someone could help me
tnx

As you are Filipino and only have Czech residency not Czech nationality then I think you will have to apply for the EEA family permit before you will be allowed to work.
Iain

[MHG]

As you are Filipino and only have Czech residency not Czech nationality then I think you will have to apply for the EEA family permit before you will be allowed to work.
Iain

Although I am not British nor living in the UK I know that you have to apply for the family permit since you´re not an EEC citizen !

The EEC right to live and work in other EEC countries is clearly restricted to EEC-citizens. All EEC member countries handle it the same way (wouldn´t make sense if not, eh ? )
Being a citizen of a country outside the EEC excludes you from this right - no matter where you live and whose country´s residence permit you have !!!

I`m German (and live in Germany) and e.g. in Germany there´s no such thing like a "family permit" and we simply have a corresponding residence status indicated on a visa-like sticker in the passport (and the residence status is of course listed in the Alien registration office´s computer)

[johncar54]

MHG

in Germany there´s no such thing like a "family permit" and we simply have a corresponding residence status indicated on a visa-like sticker in the passport (and the residence status is of course listed in the Alien registration office´s computer)

Thats interesting.

I live in Spain and I thought, as of earlier this year, all Schengen Area countries were issuing the 'family re--unification' visa.

I know Spain changed to this around April/May, previously they issued a 90 day tourist visa with a certificate that the person could travel on a one way ticket and without travel insurance (otherwise they would not have been allowed to leave Phil). With the new type of visa there is now no problem.MHG

[MHG]

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Thats interesting.

I live in Spain and I thought, as of earlier this year, all Schengen Area countries were issuing the 'family re--unification' visa.

I know Spain changed to this around April/May, previously they issued a 90 day tourist visa with a certificate that the person could travel on a one way ticket and without travel insurance (otherwise they would not have been allowed to leave Phil). With the new type of visa there is now no problem.MHG

Well, there is a so called family-reunification visa for Schengen countries !
But still local differences exist in each country !!!

Just in case i got it wrong: if she´s still in the Philippines she will have to apply for a family re-unification visa (if you´re married already).
And you´re right in expecting it is possible to travel to Germany with a one-Way ticket without health care insurance if the family re-unification visa is granted!

If you´re not yet married and intend to do so in Germany she will have to apply for a fiancee visa - which is specific for Germany and not valid for any other country !!! (the fiancee visa as well as the family reunification visa are clearly not Schengen visa but country specific)

Or maybe i got it wrong in the first place that "family permit" is just a different term for "family-reunifcation visa" ... ???