Important - Changes to the Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2006

[Terpe]

Hi Terpe
Would I be right in assuming that this now would prevent us from applying to bring my wife here on an EEA permit once I receive an Irish passport.

Hi Marco, I'm so sorry to say this but yes. That route now appears to be closed.
Here's how the Home Office has changed the wording:-

An EEA national is therefore now defined in amended regulation 2(1) as “a national of an EEA State who is not also a United Kingdom national”.

To be honest Marco it's been a "loophole" ever since the EU courts made their ruling on the McCarthy case.

I've always made the point of warning people that the home office is making discretionary approvals as a policy decision.
So in effect the "law" hasn't changed but the wording and policy is now introduced retrospectively.

[bigmarco]

Hi Marco, I'm so sorry to say this but yes. That route now appears to be closed.
Here's how the Home Office has changed the wording:-


To be honest Marco it's been a "loophole" ever since the EU courts made their ruling on the McCarthy case.

I've always made the point of warning people that the home office is making discretionary approvals as a policy decision.
So in effect the "law" hasn't changed but the wording and policy is now introduced retrospectively.

Thanks for that Terpe. I thought I was reading it that way. To be honest it wasn't really a route I wanted to go down its just the appeal process seems so long winded. I'd never even heard of the EEA permit until I started using the forum.
Well the appeal is moving forward now so hopefully the ECM will see sense and overturn the decision so we can get on with our lives.
Thanks again