Bicultural marriage between Mexican and Polish HELP

hello there,

What is the easier way to take for polish wife and mexican husband to move to Europe from Mexico?

I would appreciate any advices/suggestions you might have in regards of this matter by helping us to choose the best country we can both live and work at? The faster way for us both to get there together from Mexico.

Thanks in advance!

Do you guys have any skills to help make it easier to find a job? Maybe first try to land a job in one of the countries and then move there. I googled "foreign job search" and found 355,000,000 results.

@kesja

Try here: bfm.admin.ch/content/bfm/en/home.html and here: sweden.se/eng/Home/Work/ here too: norway.no/temaside/tema.asp?id=101

And another: expatindenmark.com/Documents/Living%20and%20Working%20in%20Denmark.pdf

Above countries listed have the bucks.

I would recommend living in Mexico. Me and my wife have tried living in Germany (neutral country) and in Poland, but Mexico has worked the best. Better weather, job chances and salaries (if you are a qualified professional) and easier growth (i.e. buying a house). Poland is expensive, cold and work is not abundant. Besides, Poles learn languages very fast (specially Spanish), you will have a hard time learning Polish and adapting to the cold weather lifestyle. Western Europe could work if you both had work permits, however, you must marry and wait 3 years in Poland before you can get Polish passport and then be able to look for a job in the UK or Germany. Let me just tell you, that when living a neutral country none of you have your friends, family, food, language and culture. Even in multicultural societies, this could affect you somehow...

I meant, your husband will have a hard time adapting... And I meant salaries in Mexico are a bit higher than in Poland for qualified professionals. Property, petrol and food are cheaper in Mexico. Public transport, tranquility of life and public medical services are better in Poland. For the same price you buy in Mexico a 120m2 brand new house, you buy a 60m2 brand new apartment in Poland. In most of Mexico you average a lowest temperature of 10C and a highest of 30C, and let me tell you something important: always sunny! We have met at least 10 Pol-Mex couples living here, just the same as we met in Poland. We're both lands of emigrants, difficult to decide where is better...

Hi I'm new here. I was looking for information about a Polish language summer course and I came across this great forum.

I worked as an immigration lawyer in Spain until 2007, so take my advice with a pinch of salt as laws might have changed a bit.

Thanks to a European Directive it is extremely easy for any EU citizen, and for his/her espouse, to obtain a residence and work permit in any other EU country.

Some years ago it used to work like this in Spain: First the European member of the couple had to register in Spain as a EU resident, and obtain a NIE number (a piece of paper). This is very easy and straightforward, although you had to wait some two months to get the registration.

Once the European is registered, you had to apply for a residence permit for the non-European member of the couple. In Spain it's called "tarjeta de familiar comunitario". That used to take some three months until you got the card. The most important document you must have with you is the marriage certificate, which should have been legalized in the country of marriage (¿Mexico?) with the "Apostille of The Hague Convention".

And that's it, the Mexican can start living and working in Spain just as if he/she were Polish.

This applies to any other EU country, EXCEPT the country of origin of the European member of the couple. That is, in your case, except for Poland. If you want to live and work in Poland, Polish laws will apply, not the European Directive.

Of course I cannot reccommend that you go to Spain now, as there is a terrible problem with unemployment and you would most probably not find a job these days.

What I do recommend is that, once you choose the country you are moving to, you contact a local immigration lawyer. The process is so easy that you would only have to pay one consultation with the lawyer in order to get all the correct information. Then you can do the process yourself.

I hope this is helpful.

Good luck!
Javier

Stay in Mexico or go to other South American or North American countries, eg. Brazil, USA, Canada, and/or Australia or New Zealand... Poland is not a country for multi-cultural people or people of different racial or ethnic backgrounds.