We used to live in the UK a few years ago—my wife still has a EU family member's residency card, which will due to Brexit invalidate itself soon. After that we have lived for the past couple of years in my wife's country of citizenship in South America. Now we would like to return to my country of citizenship in the EU/Schengen.
Does free movement apply? Does the “return” to the country of nationality have to be immediately after having resided in another EU country, or does the “return” apply forever?
This is not completely clear from the written rules. One cannot get an answer from the national authorities, but the rationale for the national implementing law suggests it does apply forever to those family members that you lived with in the other EU country, but not to any new family members.
Immigrating with the national rules is practically impossible at this time: borders to embassy closed, and they won't even start their eternally long (and discriminatory: third-country citizens with a job get a residency for their whole family faster than citizens with a job get one for their family) processing before that visit.
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