EEA Spouse traveling without visa. Advice needed.

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Hello,

This is my first post here, where I want to ask for general advice from all of you. Any opinion and advice is highly welcome.

I am an EEA national from Latvia. I never been to UK before and want to travel there to visit my cousin. Recently we married with my girlfriend in Latvia (She is from Ukraine, and therefore is a Ukranian national). I spent hours on reading about EEA Family permit visa that we obviously need for my wive in order to to travel to United Kingdom flawlessly.
Basing on information from https://eumovement.wordpress.com/2010/0 ... to-travel/ we are thinking to abandon our application for EEA Family permit and ask for admission to UK when we will arrive there. Please advise me how to do that properly. I got a few questions and want to ask you to answer to the best of your knowledge:
1. Is that information provided on the above mentioned website actual? Is there any changes in these regulations?
2. What documentation we should take with us?(I got an EEA Passport for myself, Marriage certificate translated to english, my wife's ukrainian passport(she does not have any residence permits in EU))
3. Is there any reason for UK boarder guards to refuse an admission for us.

We plan to travel by plane, so any general advice on how to deal with airline not complying with EU regulations is highly welcome. Personally I did my research and can't find a reason for them to hold us, and I believe that they will stamp my wifes passport with "admission stamp" for 2 months with not to much hassle.

Why we are choosing that way instead of just getting EEA Family permit visa? It is too expensive and to much to do, also the processing times are not suitable. British consulate in Latvia hanged their visa issuing to a third party company, which is charging for 57gpb for "facilities use". And we are not in a mood to travel to Warsaw to file an application ourselves. Ryanair tickets from Riga to London is 30 euro at the moment, so we decided to give that opportunity a chance.

Any advice welcome!

From my side I promise to share our experiance with all of you when everything is done.

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Please share your opinion, it's highly welcome.

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I do have an issue, because no airline is currently aware of that directive of free movement in the EU, so all of them said to me that we will be denied boarding to the plane if we will not have an eea family permit visa in my wife passport. I tried to stress about them being illegal, but they just went parrot like saying "no yeh ned a visa to travel", others just saying that they don't know about the visa requirements in the UK, and advised me to ask UK consulate. They seems absolutely deaf to any of my arguments about me traveling with my wife and EU regulations and anything else.

Please advice me how to deal with those airline bastards to be finally admitted to the plane.

Thanks

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I do have an issue, because no airline is currently aware of that directive of free movement in the EU, so all of them said to me that we will be denied boarding to the plane if we will not have an eea family permit visa in my wife passport. I tried to stress about them being illegal, but they just went parrot like saying "no yeh ned a visa to travel", others just saying that they don't know about the visa requirements in the UK, and advised me to ask UK consulate. They seems absolutely deaf to any of my arguments about me traveling with my wife and EU regulations and anything else.

Please advice me how to deal with those airline bastards to be finally admitted to the plane.

Thanks

I wouldn't blame the airline, they're erring on the side of caution, as they would be fined if they let someone though without the correct entry clearance.

2. What documentation we should take with us?(I got an EEA Passport for myself, Marriage certificate translated to english, my wife's ukrainian passport(she does not have any residence permits in EU))

Is she illegal in Latvia? She must have some sort of permit or sticker in her passport. Without that there's no chance of boarding let alone entering the UK. And if it's Ryanair.......

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Thank you for your reply!

No, she is legal here in Latvia as she got a long term chignon visa, so there is no worries about that.

I remember seeing some good advice on the internet about what to tell to the airline staff in order to get passed, but couldnt find it anymore.
Ryanair staff was very polite though. I had an impression that they couldn't understand what they want from them. He was consulting his supervisor and they announced that Ukrainian national need to have a visa to travel to the United Kingdom successfully...well that is what we know from the beginning.
The other airline that I consulted was not sure and told us that they will get back to us when they will find out what to do.

Any advice on how to deal with them?

Another question if we will decide to go for Eurostar from Paris, wound't it be a trouble to buy a ticket there?

We are really want to try to travel without that silly family permit and do have everything that we need, but any general advice is highly welcome.