{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2326",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Issue of EEA family permit",
  "text": "(1) An entry clearance officer must issue an EEA family permit, free of charge, to a person who applies for one if he is a family member of—\n(a) a qualified person; or\n(b) a person who is not a qualified person, where that person—\n(i) will be travelling to the United Kingdom with the person who has made the application within a year of the date of the application; and\n(ii) will be a qualified person on arrival in the United Kingdom.\n(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply if—\n(a) the applicant; or\n(b) the person whose family member he is\nfalls to be excluded from the United Kingdom on grounds of public policy, public security or public health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/47",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2326/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:33:45.002761+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}