EU passport holder with non-eu partner wishing to live in Spain.

Once a person has EU registration you can apply for your non EU to join you under the EU family reunification rule

There is no qualifying period.

My wife is Filipino, she has been resident in Spain since we married in 2006.  After 10 years her Residencia was marked. ‘Permanent.'

Hi Johncar, Thanks for your reply. That is a positive note. I have googled for information on visa rules. A residency visa will be only a matter of applying for it every year or so. I think she has to wait 10 years which seems like a long time for a Spanish passport and then there is also Spanish language test. I worry about how much Spanish will be needed.

Hello,
If I'm understand well, you are Irish, married to a non EU national, with an Irish child?

If it is the case, she will be able to get permanent residency along with you and, after a period of some years, she can apply for citizenship. Or she can apply for the Irish one, I don't know the laws there.

If I can be of any help don't hesitate to contact me.

Have a great day!

Javier

To obtain Irish nationality one must live in Ireland for I believe it's a minimum of 3 years. Just being the spouse of an Irish national dues not alter that.  I am Irish my wife is Filipino.

Hi Javier,
Thank you for your reply.
I got to do more research on it.
Rgds
Donal

Hi Johncar
I think we can get it quicker by staying in Ireland for a few more years.
We are keen to live in Spain. But then we got to wait for 10 years for the permanent residency.
If we were to go to Spain I guess the Visa is renewed each year for 10 years.
Its just all the red tape.............
Thanks for your replies
Rgds
Don

I would recommend that you get your wife Irish papers FIRST  .Then using yours and her Irish papers you can easily get TIE cards to live in Spain. I'm married to a Spanish woman and I'm from South Africa and it's been a long horrible process waiting in police stations and jumping through hoops for "burocràcia"  . The cops working in immigration are jaded by African immigration and they act like d**ks and are quite racist . And yeah you have to study Spanish, and take tests about Spanish history and culture and swear allegiance to the King ..whose father is in Dubai hiding because of tax evasion ..can you imagine..

Don

To clarify

When one gets residency status in Spain, it is temporary for five years. After that time, when one renews their status, it becomes permanent.

For Brits under the WA, EU Nationals and applications under family reunification, there is no requirement to renew one's visa once the initial application is submitted.

Kev. 
You appear to describing the process of obtaining Spanish nationality.  That involves passing written tests to prove your language ability and knowledge of it's culture.

Yes, well I assumed they would start with A progress to B . Getting residency , then nationality. Especially if his wife isn't from Europe, I'm assuming she would want a full nationality for getting full rights. As a "resident" I can tell you , you don't get the same treatment or advantages.

Either way , if they start the process to get her a TIE or NIE in Spain they will have to deal with the police . And endure endless hours waiting in line .I can't imagine what Covid has done for the process.

I've got loads of friends from South Africa who British passports and I lived in London for along time and getting documents or stuff done is way easier in England or Ireland with way less discrimination .

They might even have to go into separate rooms and answer questions to police to prove their marriage is not an arrangement and "real" .

In Spain some poor people take cash payments to marry foreigners to help them get legal status. The police are really hard on people who aren't European ( white) . It's a fact.

I have been resident in spain 34 years.  Until 2010 that was as British and since then as Irish.  I have dual nationality. 

For 24 years I worked as a volunteer translator and co-worker with the police, amongst other things, assisting people applying for their paperwork.

My wife is Filipino, she came to spain in 2006 following our marriage in Manila.

We applied, without ‘professional' help for her residence status under the provisions of the EU family reunification provision, as required within the 30 days validity of her visa. There were no significant problems. 

With that extensive experience, i do not recognise the situation described by Kev.

PS.  I was aware of problems with some applications, however, they were almost always caused by people not wanting to accept that they were required to follow the system.  Occasionally that was because of poor advice they had been given, online, by professionals, listening to ‘Fred down the pub,' etc.

Thanks everyone for advice and sharing your experiences with me. Yea, My wife does wish for either an Irish passport or a Spanish one. Irish one would be quicker I am learning.