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Keywords: Family reunification, More favourable provisions, Subsidiary Protection
The CJEU ruled on family reunification visas for the family of an individual with subsidiary protection status. It was found that an application for family reunification based on refugee status can be rejected if it was not made within three months of the sponsor receiving refugee status. However, there must be the possibility of lodging a fresh application under a different set of rules provided that national legislation:
– lays down that such a ground of refusal cannot apply to situations in which particular circumstances render the late...
Date: 07-11-2018
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Effective remedy (right to), Refugee Status, Subsidiary Protection
The CJEU ruled on whether an individual could appeal a decision which refused refugee status but granted subsidiary protection status, even if the rights and benefits afforded by each international protection status are identical in national law.
Date: 18-10-2018
Country of Applicant: Azerbaijan
Keywords: Individual assessment, Personal circumstances of applicant, Political Opinion, Refugee Status
CJEU rules on the correct processing of applications for international protection lodged separately by family members and the interrelationship between them.
Date: 04-10-2018
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Exclusion from protection, Subsequent application
CJEU rules that Hungarian national law which defines ‘serious crime’ (in the context of exclusion from subsidiary protection) as a crime with a possible custodial of 5 years sentence as incompatible with the Qualification Directive. Instead, each crime must be looked at on an individual basis to ascertain its “seriousness”.
Date: 13-09-2018
Keywords: Safe third country
CJEU (First Chamber) finds appeal against decision of the General Court dismissing the actions for annulment of the ‘EU-Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016’ manifestly inadmissible.
Date: 12-09-2018
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Palestinian Territory
Keywords: Humanitarian considerations, Return
Court ruled upon the correct test to use when considering returns to Palestine.
Date: 31-07-2018
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Keywords: Dublin Transfer, Effective access to procedures, Effective remedy (right to), Unaccompanied minor
The Court of Appeal found the "one-off" expedited procedure in place from 2016-2017 in Calais for unaccompanied children with family members, siblings or relatives in the UK and operated by the British and French authorities to fall below the requirements of procedural fairness as a matter of common law.
Date: 31-07-2018
Country of Applicant: Palestinian Territory
Keywords: Exclusion from protection, Inadmissible application, Protection
Where a person is registered with UNRWA and then later applies for international protection in a European Union Member State such persons are in principle excluded from refugee status in the European Union unless it becomes evident, on the basis of an individualised assessment of all relevant evidence, that their personal safety is at serious risk and it is impossible for UNRWA to guarantee that the living conditions are compatible with its mission and that due to these circumstances the individual has been forced to leave the UNRWA area of operations.
Date: 25-07-2018
Country of Applicant: Serbia
Keywords: Manifestly unfounded application, Safe country of origin
A Member State cannot rely on the rebuttable presumption under Articles 36 and 37 of the 2013 Asylum Procedures Directive (APD) in respect of the safe country of origin concept and subsequently find the application to be manifestly unfounded in accordance with Article 31(8)(b) without having fully implemented and complied with the procedures under the APD relating to the designation of countries as safe countries of origin.
Moreover, a Member State may not consider an application for asylum as manifestly unfounded under the APD due to the insufficiency of the applicant’s...
Date: 25-07-2018
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Sri Lanka
Keywords: Detention
According to UK detention rules, a detainee must be examined by a doctor within 24 hours of being detained in order to ascertain if they are a potential victim of torture.
Date: 13-07-2018
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