EC: Applying for EU Family Member Residence Card (Verification Against EU Law) in the Netherlands After More Than 90 Days In-Country

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Jun 11, 2019 at 17:59	comment	added	Chris Wotton		Flagged and moved as per your suggestion. Interesting as to the visa annotation being BNL 2 rather than BNL 11 in this case - indeed, I've no idea as to what 'ex-officio' is even meant to imply in this case.
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Jun 11, 2019 at 16:57	comment	added	Chris Wotton		Thanks, phoog! Just seen this - I'll create an account over there and flag the question for migration (assuming I can work out where and how to do that!)
Jun 11, 2019 at 16:34	comment	added	phoog		@ChrisWotton As your partner already got the free visa I think it is pretty clear that the government accepts him as your family member. Speaking generally (i.e., with reference to how these things work in other countries), his leaving the country might be taken as abandonment of his application. The worst case result of that would probably be needing to get a new visa and start over from scratch, which could easily be a justifiable burden (depending on why he wants to leave the country).
Jun 11, 2019 at 16:31	comment	added	phoog		@ChrisWotton the post should be migrated to Expatriates, where it is completely on topic. You can create an account there linked to your account here. I have a feeling that the migration will go more smoothly if you do so. After you've done that, you can flag the question for migration. It's possible that the 90 days was a misunderstanding of the law, or a deadline the missing of which will result in a small fine or some other slap on the wrist. I wouldn't be too concerned.
Jun 11, 2019 at 16:15	comment	added	Chris Wotton		Also, I don't envisage any issues with him qualifying as a family member as my unregistered partner - from what I can tell Dutch law is pretty relaxed in this sense provided that six months of cohabitation can be proven (I had previously thought they went on a two-year threshold like, say, the UK). Finally, while making the appointment with the IND, I asked about any potential problems he might encounter leaving and re-entering the country before the 01 July appointment, and the lady suggested it's a possibility and agreed with you that he's better off staying here until then.
Jun 11, 2019 at 16:12	comment	added	Chris Wotton		Thank you! That's also my thinking (although the IND employee I spoke to via Twitter earlier appears to disagree, referencing 90 days as the period in which he needed to have submitted his EU verification application). I don't know how much I can add here in a comment since the post has been put on hold as off-topic but, in any case, I've now made his appointment (and mine in the same slot) for 01 July, the first available, and the member of staff I spoke to didn't seem alarmed that we had arrived on 12 March. Fingers crossed everything else goes to plan. Thanks again!
Jun 9, 2019 at 17:49	history	answered	phoog	CC BY-SA 4.0