65It follows from the foregoing considerations that a Member State cannot ban entry into the territory of the European Union of a third-country national of whom a family member is a Union citizen, a national of that Member State who has never exercised his or her right to free movement, without having ascertained whether there is a relationship of dependency, as described in paragraph 61 of this judgment, between that third-country national and that family member. On the contrary, it is for the competent national authorities to assess, inter alia, on the basis of the evidence which the third-country national and the Union citizen concerned must be free to provide and, if necessary, by carrying out the necessary investigations, whether there is a relationship of dependency between those two persons (see, to that effect, judgment of 27 February 2020, Subdelegación del Gobierno en Ciudad Real (Spouse of a Union citizen), C‑836/18, EU:C:2020:119, paragraph 53).
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