Originally Posted by
RL106
And depending on the country, they'll still let you though the EU line with the foreign spouse. Annoyingly, the ETIAS fee will apply if you want to enter the family member's country of citizenship. The fee-waived one is not vaild for that one single country. Go figure.
Indeed. The rationale, such as it is, is that:
- The EU citizen has effective freedom of movement to other EU states (freedom both of cost and of restrictions)
- That freedom of movement must include freedom to bring their immediate family members, otherwise it's ineffective
- But when the EU citizen is entering their country of citizenship, they are not exercising their freedom of movement under EU law but their right to enter their country of citizenship in that country's own law
- Therefore all of the above goes out the window and domestic rules apply 🙃