Citizenship takes time and effort, but nothing prevents you both from moving to Germany to work, or Spain to retire. Next week, if you want to. I live in Denm

Citizenship takes time and effort, but nothing prevents you both from moving to Germany to work, or Spain to retire. Next week, if you want to. I live in Denmark, and here, upon arrival your wife would fill in a 2-ish-page online form [1] and present a job contract (or bank statement with a decent balance, university letter for studies etc -- the standard moving-in-the-EU rules which Britain never bothered to enforce). You would show her job contract, plus your marriage certificate, and have fingerprints taken. The process would be similar in other EU countries, but may well involve fewer online forms and more bits of paper. [1] Which I linked previously