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The basis of the Immigration EEA Regulations 2006 is Directive 2004/38/EC. Member states are bound by the EC treaties to implement Directives into national law. However, a significant amount of case law (or precedents), many of them predating the directive, and the historical development (see Freedom of movement for workers) must also be taken into account to correctly interpret EU law.
The regulations stand as amended by the following statutory instruments: SI 2017/1, [3] SI 2017/1242, [4] SI 2018/801, [5] SI 2019/468, [6] SI 2019/1155. [7] The Regulations were based on Directive 2004/38/EC. This allowed EEA citizens and their family members to live and work in the UK without explicit permission, and British citizens to work ...
The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020. A post-Brexit immigration system came into force in January 2021. Under this system, EU and non-EU citizens both need to get work visas in order ...
The Common Travel Area incorporating the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands transcends European Union rules, and in any event, Ireland is not in the Schengen area.
The UK informed the European Council of their decision to exercise their opt-out in July 2013, [19] and as such the impacted legislation ceased to apply to the UK as of 1 December 2014. While the protocol only permitted the UK to either opt-out from all the legislation or none of it, they subsequently opted back into some measures. [20] [21] [22]
The EU Settlement Scheme applies to all EU, EEA and Swiss citizens resident in the United Kingdom prior to its departure from the European Union, and their family members. . Relevant nationals who are not in their own right British nationals, or who do not already have indefinite leave to enter the UK or indefinite leave to remain in the UK, and who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, are ...
If the UK applied to rejoin the EU, it would need to apply and have its application terms supported unanimously by the EU member states. [9] In January 2020, the political scientist Anthony Salamone wrote that member state support would seek "significant, stable and long-lasting majority public opinion in favour of rejoining", suggesting ...
In the appeal the government argued that, while Parliament's enactment of the European Communities Act 1972 was necessary to prevent the UK breaching the EEC treaties when they came into force on 1 January 1973, the 1972 act was a legal precondition neither for the signature nor for the ratification of the Treaty of Accession, nor for the ...