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by erdo 1709 days ago
I think this is referred to as the Surinder Singh principle, here's more about it:

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh-immigration-r...

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Thank you. Good to know.

For me most interesting about this situation is, that most people I know, think they are EU citizens just because they live in an EU country. But that's not really true, until they executed their EU rights first.

I agree, it was certainly very surprising to me when I find out