The conditions for granting a derived right of residence to a third country national, a member of whose family is an EU citizen, ought not to be stricter than those laid down by the directive on the free movement of EU citizens, said Advocate General Yves Bot in an opinion delivered on Tuesday 30 May (case C-165/16).
Mr Toufik Lounes, an Algerian national, entered the UK in 2010 on a six-month visitor visa and then stayed on illegally. In April 2014, he married Ms Perla Nerea García...