wiggsy wrote:the EU4 stamp is done there and then at the garda station from what I read. the actual residence permit takes close to six months (you enter on a class c short stay single entry visa [unless your a non-visa national - in which case dont need a visa, just your marriage cert etc]). accept the loss, five years to PR will fly past so fast. once your back here, regardless of if your wife works or not, you have EEA rights. this means right to go to any university for the same cost as a uk national etc, same fundings and everything
My main worry with this is that given my wife is basically both unemployed (she's got her own limited company but it isn't an active business) and unemployable (no significant skills, no fully accredited university education, etc), this matter of the type of employment she'd have to undertake in the EU being of a certain intensity / caliber / "real-ness" is worrisome because whatever she would be getting for work in Ireland it certainly wouldn't be engineer, graphic designer, builder, etc. With what my wife's able to do the most we're realistically talking in terms of her prospects are things like children's day care attendant, volunteer food bank worker, et cetera. Maybe a Dublin Jobcentre, if by some unlikely miracle the Jobcentre staff there would want her to work as a desk attendant for them. (And then there's the question of whether it's even legal to go work for other countries' benefits systems; I doubt it is.)
