Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 11 April 2025 – IC v Land Baden-Württemberg

(Case C-279/25, Land Baden-Württemberg)

(C/2025/3503)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesverwaltungsgericht

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant, appellant in first appeal and appellant on a point of law: IC

Defendant, respondent in first appeal and respondent on a point of law: Land Baden-Württemberg

Other party: the Representative of the federal interest at the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court, Germany)

Question referred

Is Article 21(1) TFEU applicable to a Union citizen who has held the nationality of two Member States since birth and has resided for the first 12 years of his or her life in one and then in the other of the two Member States of which that citizen is a national, so that that Union citizen can confer a derived right of residence on a third-country national with whom that citizen was temporarily married and with whom that citizen resided in the second Member State of which that citizen is a national?