Free Movement Rights: retained rights of residence

The Free Movement of Persons Directive 2004/38/EC (the directive) states at paragraph 15 of the introduction that family members who have a retained right of residence do so ‘exclusively on a personal basis’. This means that they cannot be the sponsor for another family member. For example, if a non-EEA national with a

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