The Applicant, a Georgian national, challenges the decision of the Belgian authorities to remove him to Georgia and ban him from re-entering Belgian territory. Arriving in Belgium in 1998 with his wife and one child, the couple had two more children by July 2006. Between 1998 and 2007, the Applicant was convicted of a number of criminal offences, including robbery. During custody for his convictions, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and tuberculosis, for which he was treated in hospital.