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Does Surinder Singh route apply to Extended family members?
<p>Surinder Singh route applies to Core family members of EU citizens (and I believe this includes dependent parents too?).</p>
<p>But does the Surinder Singh route apply to Extended family members?</p>

<p>Yes, subject to one additional condition that does not apply to immediate family members.</p>
<p>The core element of the Surinder Singh route is to establish whether a British citizen must be treated as an EEA national for the purpose of free movement law in the United Kingdom.  Once that is established, all of the free movement provisions apply, both for family members and extended family members of the British citizen.</p>
<p>This arises from regulation 9 of the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1052" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, as amended</a>, which gives effect to the Surinder Singh ruling:</p>
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<p>Family members and extended family members of British citizens</p>
<p>9.—(1) If the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied, these Regulations apply to a person who is the family member (“F”) of a British citizen (“BC”) as though the BC were an EEA national.</p>
<p>(1A) These Regulations apply to a person who is the extended family member (“EFM”) of a BC as though the BC were an EEA national if—</p>
<p>(a) the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied; and<br />
(b) the EFM was lawfully resident in the EEA State referred to in paragraph (2)(a)(i).</p>
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<p>EU citizens have the right to free movement Including bringing nonEU family members to any <em>other</em> EU country, but not their own. Some countries don’t allow free movement to that country itself at all. Some just allow it. And some allow the “Surinder Singh” Route which allows free movement from another EU country to their own.</p>
<p>If general EU rules don’t apply to a more distant family member, then Surinder Singh is unlikely to apply, but it depends on the rules of your own country. It also only applies when you are moving yourself.</p>
