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[arrush]

Hi Guys,

I am literally sitting on my application, ready to take it to the post office today (Yay!) but I'm going back over and over thinking if I forgot anything important. One thing I'm not sure about are my wives residency papers. I am in Canada and she currently lives in Austria (legally there but a citizen of Poland with a Polish passport). We are submitting her paperwork to go through the Austria office as she has lived there for 10+ years. She sent me copies of a permit to work/live in Austria but never got it translated. I don't remember this being a requirement from anything I read, so I am trying to decide if I should exclude these papers, or send them in and worry if the application gets rejected as this document is not translated.

Any thoughts?

[Leon]

If you want it processed in Austria, you need to show that she is legally living in Austria with at least a one year visa.  That is why you need that paper.  Otherwise, it is possible that they send it for processing in Poland which is not really worse because they seem to be even faster than Austria, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm/fc-spouses.asp#europe

[arrush]

She does not need a visa to work in Austria as they are a part of the EU. I'm leaning towards just including those documents untranslated.

[rjessome]

Print this page:

http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/index_en.htm

Include it in the application with an short explanation that as a citizen of a member state of the EU, your wife can legally live and work in Austria.