Part IIIEEA Rights

Right of admission to the United Kingdom

12.—(1) Subject to regulation 21(1), an EEA national must be admitted to the United Kingdom if he produces, on arrival, a valid national identity card or passport issued by an EEA State.

(2) Subject to regulation 21(1) and (2), a family member of an EEA national who is not himself an EEA national must be admitted to the United Kingdom if he produces, on arrival—

(a)a valid national identity card issued by an EEA State, or a valid passport; and

(b)either—

(i)where the family member is a visa national or a person who seeks to be admitted to instal himself with a qualified person, a valid EEA family permit or residence document; or

(ii)in all other cases (but only where required by an immigration officer) a document proving that he is a family member of a qualified person.

Issue of EEA family permit

13.—(1) An entry clearance officer must issue an EEA family permit, free of charge, to a person who applies for one if he is a family member of—

(a)a qualified person; or

(b)a person who is not a qualified person, where that person—

(i)will be travelling to the United Kingdom with the person who has made the application within a year of the date of the application; and

(ii)will be a qualified person on arrival in the United Kingdom.

(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply if—

(a)the applicant; or

(b)the person whose family member he is

falls to be excluded from the United Kingdom on grounds of public policy, public security or public health.

Right of residence

14.—(1) A qualified person is entitled to reside in the United Kingdom, without the requirement for leave to remain under the 1971 Act, for as long as he remains a qualified person.

(2) A family member of a qualified person is entitled to reside in the United Kingdom, without the requirement for such leave, for as long as he remains the family member of a qualified person.

(3) A qualified person and the family member of such a person may reside and pursue economic activity in the United Kingdom notwithstanding that his application for a residence permit or residence document (as the case may be) has not been determined by the Secretary of State.

(4) However, this regulation is subject to regulation 21(3)(b).