The unbearable pain after the meeting

[keithAngel]

yes you could, thats if they don't reject your misses app, not all countries are so nice to non EEA nationals as the uk

Thanks Joe my additional point was its a free application then? once granted if I return to the UK is it automaticaly tranferable to here?

[joebloggs]

Thanks Joe my additional point was its a free application then? once granted if I return to the UK is it automaticaly tranferable to here?

i don't know much about that, but i don't think so, i would have thought you would have to go and live in portugal for at least 6months and be excerising your treaty rights (working, self-employed etc) and then apply for a family permit for your wife at the Portuguese embassy in manila (is there one ?) , after getting her to portugal, then you would have to sponsor your wife and apply for a british family permit at the british embassy in portugal, and it should all be free
, but no doubt not so stragiht forward

[keithAngel]

i don't know much about that, but i don't think so, i would have thought you would have to go and live in portugal for at least 6months and be excerising your treaty rights (working, self-employed etc) and then apply for a family permit for your wife at the Portuguese embassy in manila (is there one ?) , after getting her to portugal, then you would have to sponsor your wife and apply for a british family permit at the british embassy in portugal, and it should all be free
, but no doubt not so stragiht forward

I still have a house there and 16 years of The Portugal experience what i would say and will research is that the income requirements ,accomadation , savings ect are almost certain to be much less than the UK

[joebloggs]

I still have a house there and 16 years of The Portugal experience what i would say and will research is that the income requirements ,accomadation , savings ect are almost certain to be much less than the UK

better than that, its your legal right under european law to bring a family member to live with you..

but your in the uk, and so your not using your treaty rights in portugal