The unbearable pain after the meeting

[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