On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:42:38 +0200, Ulf Kutzner
wrote:
>Don Aitken schrieb:
>
>> Note that the primary criterion is not nationality, or immigration
>> status, but *residence*. You need to have been ordinarliy resident in
>> the UK for three years, and for the *whole* of that period your
>> primary purpose in being so resident must *not* have been to receive
>> full-time education.
>
>It might be questionable whether such rules are compatible with European
>law as they are an obstacle for the freedom of students but Luxemburg
>will not open a case for a British national complaning about UK rules.
>
There is a separate category for EU nationals and their children, no
doubt for that reason; in their case the three years' residence may be
anywhere in the EEA or Switzerland, with the same proviso. The fact
that British citizens cannot take advantage of this is only one of
many examples of British immigration law giving fewer rights to
British citizens than to other EU citizanes.
--
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