Well, that would be ideal, but figuring out how to do it is the trick. Belgium has this really enlightened policy regarding long-term couples which does not require them to marry - only to show proof of the relationship. I am sentimental and have accumulated about four years worth of proof. But the UK does not have that, and I'm not sure how it all works with the traveling-inside-the-EU deal. Long story short, a stay in Belgium might be required... but that'd be good for my Dutch!
Learning Dutch is of course good. I am fairly sure that if you have the right to stay in Belgium, you have the right to stay anywhere in the EU. I may be wrong.
From what I can figure out, the UK doesn't automatically accept permanent residents, but only citizens, of other EEA countries. It'd require the partner to move to the UK first and then you to join him there, with your visa generally ending whenever he moved (unless you had by then acquired citizenship in an EEA country).
Note: EEA = EU + Norway + Iceland + Liechtenstein (plus Switzerland in all but name)
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/survey: moving across the ocean & international borders. 12 easy questions. (...yes, am joking.)
- 28/11/2009 04:27:21 AM
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Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 12:48:34 PM
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Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 05:48:04 PM
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Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 07:12:08 PM
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Unfortunately I think you are wrong
- 28/11/2009 10:53:02 PM
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Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 30/11/2009 02:12:08 AM
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Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:21:33 AM
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Here's that ranking, if you're curious.
- 30/11/2009 02:27:37 AM
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Re: Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:53:48 AM
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