In December 2021, the Migration Law Clinic issued an expert opinion concerning cases in which the Raad van Stad (Dutch Council of State) had referred preliminary questions. The cases focus on three people whose applications for international protection are yet to be examined on the merits, since the Dutch Immigration Authorities (IND) decided that Romania…
On 22 June 2022, the Dutch Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (Council of State) referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice EU (CJEU) about the conditions for refusing a refugee status to a person who has committed a ‘particular serious crime’ and constitutes a ‘ danger to the community’ of the…
On 16 September 2015, Austria reintroduced border controls at its land borders with Hungary and Slovenia, which have been prolonged several times until 21 November 2021. An Austrian citizen (referred to as NW) has contested the legality of these prolonged internal border controls before the Austrian courts in two cases. In one case (Case C-368/20)…
This project concerns the case of a Moroccan mother who has a right to reside in the Netherlands with her six-year-old Dutch child on the basis of Article 20 TfEU (the Chavez-Vilchez case law). The mother applied for emergency shelter to the municipality of Amsterdam. This application was refused, amongst others because the mother did not…
On 1 September 2021 the Dutch Council of State referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice in several Dublin Cases (CJEU Case C‐556/21). The question is in essence: Does EU law preclude that a national appellate grants an interim measure to the State, which suspends the six months time limit for transferring the applicant? In order to answer this question…
The District Court of Amsterdam has referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice (regarding the right to residence of third-country national parents of Dutch children on the basis of Article 20 on the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union (also referred to in the Netherlands as the Chavez-Vilchez right of residence). The questions…
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