I am sorry to trouble you with a question that I am sure has been asked a million times but I am really stuck and have not found the answer in almost a year of searching!
I am British and my husband is from Thailand. We have lived in the UK for almost 8 years and my husband has indefinate leave to remain. We looked as getting him citizenship but at £720 we really can't afford it. All we want is to be able to travel abroad visa free. I have tried to keep myself up to date on the EU directive 38/2004 and understand (I think) that although it is slowly being implemented by different countries they are still making it hard. On the French consulate website it says that a spouse of an EU national can enter visa free if they have a valid UK residence permit with the endorsement "family member of an EEA national". I think I am right (although please correct me if I am wrong) that my husband's ILR visa is his residence card but nowhere on it does it state family member of an EEA national. I have looked on the Home Office websitre and can see applications for EEA4 but not only do I not want them to keep our passports for over a year I don't even know if that applies to my husband. I guess what I am asking is am I missing out on some kind of residence card that has all this info on it to satisfy other countries border control or are they doing this on purpose to make it dfficult for us all? I simply want to go to Disneyland (and maybe other destinations in the future) with my husband visa free as obtaining a visa is so expensive and stressful.
Thank you so much for your help
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