So if you married an EU national and never lived in the EU - they're going to make it pretty hard for you both to move to any EU country. This proposed change doesn't discriminate on whether you've been married for 2 days or 20 years. You will still be subject to national immigration rules - whatever they may be for each country (might also include language knowledge requirements?).The Commission intends to adopt a proposal to complement Directive 2004/38 on free movement of Union citizens in order to exclude, from the scope of free movement rights, third country nationals who had no prior lawful residence in a Member State before marrying a Union citizen or who marry a Union citizen only after the Union citizen has established residence in the host
Member State. Accordingly, in such cases, the host Member State's immigration law will apply to
the third country national. This proposal will be submitted after the above Decision has taken effect.
Schengen visas for tourism/short trips for spouses of EU nationals also might become far more complicated.
Am I right to be worried? It looks like this may at a later stage be challenged in the CJEU but that will take a few years?
