Exceptional circumstances not required to deport third-country national parent of EU citizen child
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Supreme CourtPublished January 29, 2021Robinson (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentLady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens[2020] UKSC 53Judgment December 16, 2020
It was not necessary for a European Union member state to show “exceptional circumstances” in order to deport a third-country national parent or carer of an EU citizen child or dependant under the “threat to public policy or public security” exception to the principle of EU law that such a parent or carer was entitled to a right of residence in the EU if her expulsion would require her EU citizen child or dependant to leave the EU.
The Supreme Court so held in dismissing the appeal of the applicant, Cherrie