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The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 [1] (or EEA Regulations for short), amended by SI 2009/1117, [2] SI 2011/1247 [3] and SI 2015/694 [4] and which have now been mostly repealed and superseded by the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, was a piece of British legislation which implemented the right of free movement of European Economic Area (EEA ...
A family member of an EEA/Swiss citizen who is in possession of a residence permit indicating their status is exempt from the requirement to hold a visa when entering the European Economic Area or Switzerland when they are accompanying their EEA/Swiss family member or are seeking to join them. [294]
This is the basis of the UK's Immigration EEA Regulations 2006, and the subsequent replacement regulations of 2016. EU Free Movement law is a constantly evolving and changing, which ensures that these regulations need to evolve frequently and this is shown by the significant number of amendments issued by Statutory instruments from the British ...
Nonetheless, the US refuses to lift the requirements. On 3 March 2017, the European Parliament voted in favor to impose visa requirements on U.S. citizens in the future. [156] According to a report from April 2015, [157] the Commission dismissed notifications by both Bulgaria and Romania of a general visa requirement by Australia. [158]
In the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, [17] the United Kingdom declared that most citizens of EEA member states and their family members should be treated as having only a conditional right to reside in the UK. This has implications should such a person wish to remain permanently in the United Kingdom after ceasing ...
The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 [5] extend visa free travel to third country nationals in possession of residence cards and permanent residence cards but this exception is limited to those cards issued by the UK government itself. Residence cards issued by other EEA states and Switzerland are not recognised under UK ...
European Economic Area (EEA) citizens have the right of free movement and residence throughout the EEA. This right also extends to certain family members, even if they are not EEA citizens. A Residence card of a family member of a Union citizen is issued to the family member to confirm this right of residence. The holder of a valid Residence ...
The rights of EEA citizens are not governed by UK Immigration Regulations, [11] but rather the EEA Regulations. Under the law as it existed between 2 October 2000 and 29 April 2006, a citizen of an EEA state or Switzerland could be granted permanent residence on an application after four years' residence in the United Kingdom exercising Treaty ...