Request for a preliminary ruling from the Centrale Raad van Beroep (Netherlands) lodged on 18 March 2015 – H.C. Chavez-Vilchez and Others, other parties: Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank (Svb) and Others

(Case C-133/15)

Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Centrale Raad van Beroep

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: H.C. Chavez-Vilchez, P. Pinas, U. Nikolic, X.V. Garcia Perez, J. Uwituze, Y.R.L. Wip, I.O. Enowassam, A.E. Guerrero Chavez,

Other parties: Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank (Svb), College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Arnhem, College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente’s-Gravenhage, College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente’s-Hertogenbosch, College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Amsterdam, College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Rijswijk, College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Rotterdam,

Questions referred

Must Article 20 of the TFEU be interpreted as precluding a Member State from depriving a third-country national who is responsible for the day to day and primary care of his/her minor child, who is a national of that Member State, of the right of residence in that Member State?

In answering that question, is it relevant that the legal, financial and/or emotional burden does not rest entirely with that parent and, furthermore, that it cannot be excluded that the other parent, who is a national of the Member State, might in fact be able to care for the child? In that case, should the parent/third-country national have to make a plausible case that the other parent is not able to assume responsibility for the care of the child, so that the child would be obliged to leave the territory of the European Union if the parent/third-country national is denied a right of residence?