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South African Passport Visa Requirements

  • 07-03-2016 01:22PM
    #1
    WolfSpinach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭


    Eurgh, this is confusing, so any help would be appreciated.

    I have a Dutch passport. I'm grand, to invoke the vernacular phrase.

    My wife has a South African passport. She is here on a Sports and Culture Permit. She has a GNIB card. We intend to get a Spousal Visa soon.

    We haven't taken a honeymoon. We're thinking Spain or Portugal. Does my wife require documentation aside from her passport, a GNIB card and our unabridged South African Marriage Certificate to enter the Schengen area?

    We want to travel to the UK in July for my sister's graduation. Does my wife's status as the spouse of an EU national or as a registered resident in Ireland exempt her from UK visa requirements? Who can you ask in an official capacity?

    Any advice would be appreciated, even if it's "contact the embassy", although I'm struggling to find their contact info.


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  • #2
    juanchoja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭juanchoja


    If you have a Dutch passport, and if you are in Ireland as a Dutch citizen and if you are married, then your wife has the god given right for a stamp 4 EU, this type of stamp allows her to be treated exactly as an EU citizen in Ireland, she would have the same benefits you would have, only in Ireland. If you need a visa as a South African to travel to the UK as a tourist, then she have to get a visa, regardless of her legal status in Ireland and regardless whether she is married with you or not. The same way she would have to get a visa to come to Ireland as your wife should she need one.

    The visa process should be straight forward and they should give it to her with no problem in the British Embassy in Dublin.

    The same applies to a Schengen country, if your wife needs a visa to a Shchengen country then she must apply for a visa, it would be valid to enter any Schengen country. The GNIB card is not a ID card as is not valid to enter another EU country without a visa if the passport holder requires a visa to enter that country.

    Now about the grey area. I'm just saying the facts, you can make up your own mind, but there are no border controls between Ireland and the UK. If you travel with Ryanair, with or without luggage to the UK the non EU citizen must have their passport and visa verified by them before boarding. If you travel with Aerlingus without checked baggage or by ferry you can just step in and go. There would be no control in the UK due to the common travel area. But this only aimed for Citizens of the UK, Ireland and channel islands. You can technically go without a visa like that but you shouldn't legally.

    Coming back to Ireland there is passport control in Ireland,but not entering or leaving the UK from and to Ireland, Irish flights land in a special designated area free of passport control like a domestic flight.


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