A UKBA view on free movement law

[Directive/2004/38/EC]

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... iew=Binary
(Archived at: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27885818/UK/ee ... ssnats.pdf ) is a wonderful review of EEA free movement law, and of the history of various member states.

I do not know what it means, but I like this example:

Protocol 2 to the 1972 Treaty of Accession provided that
Danish nationals "resident" in the Faroe Islands would be
"nationals of a Member State" for EC Treaty purposes only
from the date on which the "original Treaties become
applicable to those Islands". This has not happened. So
Danish nationals resident in the Faroe Islands, although in
every other sense citizens of Denmark, are not "nationals of
a Member State" for Community law purposes and have no
rights of free movement within the EEA

There are also a number of examples of EU citizens living in the UK over time and having babies, and some of them are British, and then not British, and then British again.

This particular version of the document seems to be from 2010.

[fysicus]

A similar exception exists for the Isle of Man.
British Citizens from the IoM have no free movement rights on the basis of community law, neither can people from other EU/EEA countries settle on the IoM.