moot - 12 September 2008 11:16 PM
In Madrid it can take months and months and months and months for a piece of paper to cross from one desk to another.
Hi,
I am in a similar dilemma. I am Swiss and my wife is Filipina. My wife has a 5-year-old son. I am a resident of Spain since 1998, but we also rent a house in the Philippines, where we did stay together for most of the past three years. Now we want to move definitively to Spain. I am registered in Spain, NIE, everything is legal and correct. My wife came with me to Spain (on a tourist visa), but the boy is still in the Philippines. We have been at the police with a lawyer, but they were reacting as if we ask them about some difficult problem about Quantum mechanics 😉. They told me to ask for an appointment by Internet, but since my wife is going back to Manila September 25th, this is useless. I did read about all the regulations and laws. My wives, and her son, as direct familiars of a communitarian (Switzerland has, despite not being in the EU, some agreements with the EU about this), are entitled to the same privileges as myself.
I did read about this ?family regroupment? visa, but I also did hear about some horror stories, people being separated for month, because the Spanish authorities are just not doing anything. I did write a mail to the Spanish embassy in Manila, but I really don?t know if they will be of any help.
My wife has a tourist visa for Spain, with multiple entries, valid until December, but the boy has only a visa for Switzerland. I suppose the Spanish consulate in Manila will not issue a tourist visa for the boy, since they know we do not want to go back to the Philippines.
Personally, I do not want to go back to the Philippines, because, among other things, the tropical climate is very hard on my system.
What can we do?
Every hint will be highly appreciated.
