EU Residence Card

[Pursuivant]

There is no such thing as an "EU residence permit" you can apply as a blanket RP. You are confusing something.. Long term blue card after 5 years residence? Its for phd's at CERN, not hockeywives...

I'm sorry, my terminology was off. I am referring to an EU Residence Card.

Yeah, that is (depending which one you mean) the "blue card" when you have been resident in an EU country 5+ years. And then there is the EU-spouse card, that you get when you move from an EU country where you live with your EU-spouse to another EU country.

[Pursuivant]

Yeah, but the EU is "excercizing his right" moving FROM one EU country to another. Moving from USA is not "excersizing EU".

Do you have a source for this? At least this section in the relevant directive seems to imply otherwise:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ ... 38&from=EN

"1. This Directive shall apply to all Union citizens who move to or reside in a Member State other than that of which they are a national, and to their family members as defined in point 2 of Article 2 who accompany or join them."

Yes exactly. Are you illiterate? USA is not EU! If you move from outside of EU its not "freedom of movement"!

[betelgeuse]

Yeah, but the EU is "excercizing his right" moving FROM one EU country to another. Moving from USA is not "excersizing EU".

Do you have a source for this? At least this section in the relevant directive seems to imply otherwise:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ ... 38&from=EN

"1. This Directive shall apply to all Union citizens who move to or reside in a Member State other than that of which they are a national, and to their family members as defined in point 2 of Article 2 who accompany or join them."

Yes exactly. Are you illiterate? USA is not EU! If you move from outside of EU its not "freedom of movement"!

No I am not. Union citizens are defined in the directive as: 1) "Union citizen" means any person having the nationality of a Member State;

The spouse of the OP is Union citizen by having Finnish nationality. Neither point I pasted here has a requirement of currently residing in a Member State. This means whether they are moving from USA, Sweden or Finland is irrelevant.

[nstark]

The spouse of the OP is Union citizen by having Finnish nationality. Neither point I pasted here has a requirement of currently residing in a Member State. This means whether they are moving from USA, Sweden or Finland is irrelevant.

To reinforce this point, it may be helpful to mention he has only been in the US on a student visa, so he is still very much a Finnish citizen.

[Pursuivant]

Back in the day with that grandmother case, the grandmother couldn't get a RP because it was "Finnish people" case. If they had moved from Sweden, they could have come with the grandma on the EU-card as an "EU freedom of movement case". But then again that only shows that Finns are second class citizens in their own country. Some countries (like UK) will roll the red carpet. At the end of the day "married" in the right tickbox always helps from bureaucracy.