Can a spouse visa holder travel to Europe without a visa?
 

We are planning to go France/Spain/Europe in general but the thing is any number i call is getting me no where, i wanted to know if anyone could help me.My husband has a british spouse card/visa..as i am a British passport holder..so can he travel to Europe with me without applying for a visa? (i heard that as long as he is with his spouse he can..but so confused!!?)

You'd have to ask the authorities for the country where you first enter the Schengen area, since they would be checking. Once in, that entry should cover all the other countries in the Schengen area, but not other European countries not in the Schengen area - for them you'd have to check with the authorities in those countries.

If you're starting in France, this is what one of their consulates in the UK says:

http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Do-you-need-a-visa

That was very helpful!! Thanks so much PatrickLondon ;)

If your husband's situation is not specifically described on the website PatrickL quotes, you MUST contact a Schengen consulate direct.

The rights of a visa-needing partner to live with their EU citizen spouse in an EU country may not necessarily apply to crossing borders. Mistrust any advice you hear about general principles.

I wonder if you believe "any number i call is getting me no where" is that you're not getting the answer you want to hear, or that they're expecting you to pay for the advice? Free advice here, I'm afraid, is worth exactly what you've paid for it.

The only people who can give you a definitive answer about French law as it applies to your husband is the French consulate.

It depends upon your husband's country stated on his passport

which you do not say check with your embassies for best info.

as qwovadis says, it depends on your husband's passport.

From personal experience, I can tell you that I did it a lot. I have a U.S. passport with a UK IDL spousal visa. My husband is Canadian with UK Right of Abode. When we lived in the UK, I traveled with my husband OR on my own to France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Austria. No problems with passport control on any of these trips - they glanced at the UK visa in my U.S. passport and that was about it.

Your husband's spousal visa doesn't grant him any rights to entry to the schengen area. If he would have had to get a visa before he had the spousal visa then he has to do so now too. However, if he does have to apply for a visa then he needs to apply as a 'spouse of an EU citizen'.

FoFoBT -- with a US passport, you had the right to visit any of those other countries no matter what.

Kerouac, thank you, of course I already knew that. However, without the spousal visa, they would have wondered why I was traveling around Europe for WAY more than the normal U.S. visitor allowance.