Grenfell Tower Update - Further Guidance

A previous blog Home Office sets out Grenfell Tower Policy for survivors and directly affected individuals, 6 July...

Lawful Residence prior to the accession of an EEA Member State: Croatia and Permanent Residence

Croatia has not yet been a member of the EU for five years, but it is nonetheless possible...

Counting maternity leave towards the qualifying period for permanent residence

Regulation 15(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (the ‘Regulations’) provides that an EEA national...

EEA Residence Cards: Certificates of Application and Immediacy

According to Directive 2004/38, the right of residence of the non-EU (third-country national) family members of Union citizens, shall be evidenced by the issue of a Residence card.  A Residence Card of a Family Member of a Union citizen shall be “issued no...

CJEU Advocate General Gives Opinion in Favour of UK

In a recently given opinion, an Advocate General has proposed that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) should dismiss...

The Right of Permanent Residence

The Citizen’s Directive, Directive 2004/38, introduced a new and updated right of permanent residence, open to all EU...

Acquisition of Permanent Residence under EEA law

The right of permanent residence under EU law is acquired by Union citizens and their family members after five...

Retained Rights of Residence following divorce from an EEA national

Advocate General Kokott has recently given her Opinion in Case C-218/14, Singh, Njume and Aly, 7 May 2015, a case concerning retained rights of residence following divorce from an EEA national.Factual BackgroundRegulation 10 - Family member who has retained...

Effect of Naturalisation of an EEA National on Family Members’ Rights

The family members of UK nationals are not ordinarily able to benefit from EU free movement law as transposed by the EEA Regulations...

EEA Family Members and Initial Rights of Residence in the UK

Article 6 of the Citizens’ Directive, Directive 2004/38/EC, gives a right of residence for up to three months for Union citizens...

Changes to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations

On 8th November 2012, changes to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 came into effect. removal of the requirement in regulation 8(2(a) that an extended family member must have resided in a country in which the EEA national also resides....

More immigration routes require biometric residence permit

The UK Border Agency has completed the rollout of biometric residence permits in the UK. This...