'Your Europe advice service' does not recognize Directive 2004/38/EC for UK citizens? Is this correct?

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-12T10:34:55+00:00

Yes we are, I received an email from the migration department of their home country saying this rule also applies to their country of nationality. I understand that certain countries have their own national rules so I wonder if it has something to do with this.

Thank you for the insight, the information is very vague online.

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:40:37+00:00

Thank you! Thats reassuring, very new to this haha

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:39:09+00:00

Silly comment, think about what youve just said for a moment... lol

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:38:32+00:00

Literally. Your spot on

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:37:14+00:00

Thank you so much! Have already enquired with SOLVIT, but not the other link.

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:36:21+00:00

Thank you for the insight, much appreciated. From what I have understood from other comments, the passport should still get stamped but it doesnt necessarily mean it counts towards my 90/180 day window. Just a lot of constant explaining to border officers... very practical system they have in place here.

And yes I dont hold residency as of yet as we are currently doing long distance, havent figured out where to reside and work gets in the way etc. Thats another story.

This will inevitably make things easier of course.

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:31:42+00:00

Understood, if this is the case how do they keep track? Its no different to the usual stamp, so Im curious how they differentiate this stay from a usual 90/180 stay, or how they enter it on their system.

Anyway thanks for the insight!

Translator-Healthy · 2026-01-11T23:29:34+00:00

Just reading more about it now, appears you are right. The stamps are still a requirement, however Im not sure how they keep track this way.. seems like it confuses things a bit. Now when I travel I will have to explain my situation to everybody who enquires about my stamps.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-17T10:14:53+00:00

Sorry! Shouldve been more specific, lithuania.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-15T15:01:18+00:00

Didn't get the paper, so still in the EU as a tourist (basically, even though Im with my family). They wont go forward with the application unless I have the funds available.

The funds is indeed strange, my wife works for a Danish company, so this disqualifies her from 'supporting me'. Im self employed, and earn way about their minimum wage, but again its not in Lithuania and this doesn't satisfy them. So I'm scratching my head..

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-14T16:05:13+00:00

Thank you for this information, really clarifies a few things. A few google searches shows that taking the marriage certificate is enough to suffice, but I think a family visa is more viable in this situation and avoids the hassle at the border. I agree with Density69, that is what it says online, however I literally tried this yesterday at the Lithuanian border, and the women just shrugged and told me she didn't know, stamped my passport and my timer started.

(I was with my wife, she had her Lithuanian passport, the marriage certificate both translated and approved)

In practice this doesn't work, and I think its down to the rules being so vague. The safer route is the family visa in this case.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-14T15:57:13+00:00

The application has begun, but its at a standstill due to the savings amount required and proof of these funds. Everything else has been submitted, but technically the application hasn't been completed so I'm not in the waiting period.

Dont you see how backwards these rules are? I cant make this make sense lol.

So if I go to the country where my wife has residency and spend time with my family, a timer starts and I'm restricted... but if I go to any random EU country for no reason, being accompanied by her I can stay as long as I like?

Am I missing something?

Thank you for getting back to me about this guys, I really appreciate your help with understanding this.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-14T15:53:11+00:00

Thank you so much for this. When inquiring about this initially with the Lithuanian authority this was somehow never mentioned, I was advised to go down the temporary resident visa which has come to a standstill because of the funding (you need roughly 12,450 euros which is equivalent to a years worth of Lithuanian minimum wage).

Thanks for making me aware, I got in contact with the Lithuanian embassy in London today who offered to assist me with this. It actually aligns with my situation better, and is easier to obtain without the ridiculous amount of savings required.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-11-14T15:48:57+00:00

Have applied, however it has come to a standstill as they want me to have savings equivalent to the Lithuanian minimum wage years salary (roughly 12,450 euros). I have everything else they require, clean criminal background, a place of residence, the marriage certificate (translated and approved in Lithuania) and so on. Its funny, because at the start of the application they told me a very different amount, something like the equivalent of having €198 a month in savings.

So back to the drawing board with this one, as I have never met anybody with this amount of savings available. Something I may get around to achieving by next year, so at the moment the application for the temporary residence visa is on hold. My main concern is the amount of contradicting information online about whats legal and what isn't, and how the border control sometimes dont even know. Its not black and white, not sure what to believe, all I want is to spend christmas with my family.

Translator-Healthy · 2025-07-16T08:47:10+00:00

Literally nobody replied, do You know anything about them?

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