Family Reunification Steps?

cdw057 wrote:

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If they do not help, my conclusion is you are either not as good or your employer is not good.

In my life I have learned that being loyal and hard working with your employer pays off.

Just a thought...maybe OP is an agency worker effectively.   Temporary employment but no other services like spouses.

I worked for a Dutch multi-national and they couldn't do enough to help me at the time.  But it was a long time ago.  They might not be quite so friendly now.  I mean that it's changed a lot and YMMV.  Loyalty isn't now considered that vital in some countries like the  UK, USA etc. Moving is almost considered a necessary way to advance or being posted overseas anyway.

ShayanAhmad wrote:

@fluffy2560, agency worker? You can degrade more if you'd like though. And, it's not temporary employment, I suppose you shouldn't think of others as yourself.

@cdw057: It's not in the company's policy. I thought it was easily understandable. The company doesn't have a policy to separately file for spouse papers. That's it. That's why I need to do it. Please don't school me on if the company should do it and if I should work hard, I am working good enough that I am still here. On top of that, if you know the process, please enlighten me and don't side track this post. It's UI is already quite ugly.

Thanks for your time.

Why Hungary?

ShayanAhmad wrote:

@fluffy2560, agency worker? You can degrade more if you'd like though. And, it's not temporary employment, I suppose you shouldn't think of others as yourself.

@cdw057: It's not in the company's policy. I thought it was easily understandable. The company doesn't have a policy to separately file for spouse papers. That's it. That's why I need to do it. Please don't school me on if the company should do it and if I should work hard, I am working good enough that I am still here. On top of that, if you know the process, please enlighten me and don't side track this post. It's UI is already quite ugly.

Thanks for your time.

Aw come on, don't feel trolled.  You didn't tell us your total circumstances and we don't know what is going on with you or your employer.   There's also a different expectation especially in almost all the EU.

In European circles and companies we've always expected full assistance from the company including all family members to move countries. That's always been the case that happens.  In my own career, it's happened to me multiple times.  We usually refer to it as a package - it might include removals, housing, vehicles, settling in allowances, healthcare, children's schooling and exit strategy.   I would never say be sent to Papua New Guinea or even Saudi without having all of these items ticked.  In return for that, we might agree a 3 year contract.

There's nothing wrong with being a sponsored agency worker. It's de rigeur in many parts of the world.  It happens here too - people get recruited in Hungary en masse to go and do work in other places.  They even lay on charter planes to bring labour in from places like Romania etc.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Aw come on, don't feel trolled.  You didn't tell us your total circumstances and we don't know what is going on with you or your employer.   There's also a different expectation especially in almost all the EU.

In European circles and companies we've always expected full assistance from the company including all family members to move countries. That's always been the case that happens.  In my own career, it's happened to me multiple times.  We usually refer to it as a package - it might include removals, housing, vehicles, settling in allowances, healthcare, children's schooling and exit strategy.   I would never say be sent to Papua New Guinea or even Saudi without having all of these items ticked.  In return for that, we might agree a 3 year contract.

There's nothing wrong with being a sponsored agency worker. It's de rigeur in many parts of the world.  It happens here too - people get recruited in Hungary on masse to go and do work in other places.  They even lay on charter planes to bring labour in from places like Romania etc.

Must say, I agree 100% with what you wrote here, they are my experiences as well.  It all ended when they made me redundant 25 years later, but that was 18 months short of retirement, so I got my mortgage paid off and early retirement - win, win.

ShayanAhmad wrote:

@SimCityAT: Because I work here. Where else would I bring my wife?
@cdw057: Bringing a lawyer is never a good idea especially against the entity on whose payroll I dwell.
@fluffy2560: Let me explain...

There is a time (t1) when I signed the contract with the company. I was then in my home country. I received my VISA papers, went to the embassy and I received my VISA. I came to Hungary. Spent 18 months here. And now I am getting married. Thus, would want to bring my wife here.

The company says the policy to support the spouse/children is ONLY when at `t1` I had a spouse (and/or children). If I didn't have a spouse at t1, the company mentions that they are not going to go through the extra mile to bring my wife. They just say, it's not in their policy to bring wife afterwards and that I would have to support on my own. But they would have totally supported at the time of my relocation to Hungary.

Thus, bringing a lawyer against this policy is totally bonkers and does not express wise decision making here.

Here is my situation with you guys so far: I am in an emergency ward with a chronic pain and you guys are questioning me why I got into this world in the first place.
It'd be a lot of time and energy savior if we cut to the chase and I get around with paper compilation and filing.

Two strokes: the company WILL NOT support it, and I want to know how should I proceed with it. Is it soo difficult to get answered for?

I hope I make sense now.

Yes it does.  If only we'd known this at the beginning.....

Ok so I don't know about non-EU nationals bringing a spouse but  EU nationals are entitled to bring their non-EU spouse (i.e. married or civil partnership spouse) and family with them.  There's an EU directive on it and that's been discussed before. 

I don't know if this applies to work permit holders but you might find some examples of how that also applies via Mrs Google.