Inclusion of Minor Children of Durable Partners as Extended Family Members
Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix
Policy effect
Expands extended family member eligibility under regulation 8(5) to include children under the age of 18 of an EEA national's durable partner.
Conditions and exceptions
Applies to children under 18 of a durable partner of an EEA national.
Official source excerpt
Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.
These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 15th August 2019. Amendments to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 2. —(1) The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016( 4 ) are amended as follows. … (5) In regulation 8 (meaning of “extended family member”)— … (d) in paragraph (5), after “an EEA national,” insert “or the child (under the age of 18) of that partner”; …Retrieved from https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1155/made
Review method
Official-source atomic repair with two-pass Gemini 3.8 Flash review and a final cross-record publication gate
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