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El Ghatet v. Switzerland (no. 56971/10) [Article 8], 8 November 2016

Date: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

On 8 November 2015, the European Court of Human Rights gave its judgment in El Ghatet v. Switzerland (no. 56971/10) concerning the refusal of the Swiss authorities to permit the family reunification of an Egyptian son with his father, who has Egyptian and Swiss nationality.

Request for a preliminary ruling from the District Court of The Hague (Netherlands) on the issue of family reunification for an ‘aged out’ unaccompanied child and her parents

Date: 
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The District Court of The Hague (Netherlands) has referred a request for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the interpretation of Article 2(f) of the Family Reunification Directive (2003/86/EC).

Netherlands: Hague District Court – Dublin Transfer Not in the Best Interest of the Minor

Date: 
Thursday, June 9, 2016
In an interim judgment of 9 June 2016, the Hague District Court ruled that the State Secretary of Security and Justice failed to consider the individual circumstances of the asylum application of a child by rejecting his application based on the Dublin Regulation.

CJEU: Case C-558/14 Khachab v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Álava

Date: 
Thursday, April 21, 2016

The CJEU has given a preliminary ruling in Case C-558 Khachab v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Álava, relating to the interpretation of Article 7(1) c) of the 

I.A.A. and Others v. the United Kingdom (no 25960/13) [Article 8], 31 March 2016

Date: 
Thursday, March 31, 2016

The case of I.A.A. and Others relates to five Somali nationals who comprise 4 biological siblings and an adopted sibling. Their mother left Somalia to join her second husband in 2004 in the UK, where he had been granted refugee status, leaving the applicants in the care of her sister in Somalia. The child of the applicants’ mother and her second husband was granted entry clearance in 2005. In 2006 the applicants moved with their aunt from Somalia to Ethiopia.

Belgium: CALL annuls decision refusing humanitarian visa to Syrian Christians

Date: 
Monday, February 29, 2016

This case relates to a Syrian couple aged 76 and 73, living in Aleppo, who had a Belgian son, who they were dependent on for financial support. He made visa applications on their behalf at the Belgian embassy in Istanbul in June 2015, which was refused in February 2016. They lodged an application to suspend the execution of this decision before the Council of Aliens Law Litigation (CALL) under the extreme urgency procedure.

ECtHR - Pajić v. Croatia (no. 68453) [Articles 8 & 14], 23 February 2016

Date: 
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The case of Pajić v. Croatia relates to a national of Bosnia and Herzegovina who sought a residence permit in Croatia for the purposes of family reunification with her same-sex partner. They had been in a relationship for two years and planned to live together and start a business. Her application was refused as it did not meet the requirements of the Aliens Act.

Slovenia: new International Protection Act

Date: 
Friday, January 29, 2016

The International Protection Act, the main legislation that regulates the procedure for obtaining international protection in Slovenia is currently in the final stages of reform.

UK: R on the application of ZAT and others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

Date: 
Thursday, January 21, 2016

This case was a judicial review test case before the Upper Tribunal (UT) concerning seven Syrian applicants. Four were living in the unofficial camp near Calais known as ‘the Jungle’, infamous for its conditions of squalor, as recently criticised by the Lille Administrative Tribunal.

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