Court of Justice rules that parents of dependent child citizens of the European Union may not be refused a right of residence
Case C 34/09 Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v Office national de l’emploi (ONEM) 8 March 2011
The Court of Justice ruled that:
"[EU law] precludes a Member State from refusing a third country national upon whom his minor children, who are European Union citizens, are dependent, a right of residence in the Member State of residence and nationality of those children, and from refusing to grant a work permit to that third country national, in so far as such decisions deprive those children of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights attaching to the status of European Union citizen."
This Judgment followed on from the previous Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston