Which family relationships qualify?
Qualifying family members are a spouse; a common-law partner; minor children (common to the couple, of either partner, jointly adopted or adopted by either, unmarried, including a life or informal life partner's minor child); and parents or adoptive parents of a minor child.
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The following persons are considered as family members of a third-country national who has been granted long-term residence in another EEA Member State: a spouse, a common law partner, a minor child common to spouses and common law partners, life partners or informal life partners, and a minor child of each of them, their minor jointly adopted child, or a minor child adopted by either of them who is not married, as well as a minor child of a life or informal life partner or his minor adopted child who is not married, parents or adoptive parents of a minor child.
