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New Guidance on Late Surinder Singh Applications

In our previous blog post, we discussed the closure of the route for British Citizens to make applications under the EU Settlement Scheme for family permits for their family members to return with or join...

‘Surinder Singh’ Route to Close On 29 March 2022

On 29 March 2022 at 2300 GMT, the route for British Citizens to make applications under the EU Settlement Scheme for family permits for their family members to return with or join them in the UK will close. Looking...

Surinder Singh and the EU Settlement Scheme

The ‘Surinder Singh’ route permits family members of a ‘qualifying British citizen’ to return with them or join them in the UK after a period of residence in an EU Member State (or Switzerland) in accordance...

End of the ‘centre of life test’ in Surinder Singh cases?

In the recent case of ZA (Reg 9. EEA Regs; abuse of rights) Afghanistan [2019] UKUT 281 (IAC), the Upper Tribunal found that there is no basis in EU law for the centre of life test, as set out in Regulation...

Case C-89/17 Banger - Part 1 - Surinder Singh available to extended family members if AG Bobek Opinion followed by CJEU

[Note: This article is 1 of 2 on the AG’s Opinion in Banger.  In our second post we discuss the decision in relation to the right to an effective remedy] Advocate General Bobek delivered his Opinion in the...