[EN, Dutch below] In response to a request sent in by a social worker from an NGO, the students of the EU Citizen Rights Corner published a legal advice regarding the access to shelter and social assistance for EU migrant workers who lost their jobs. The central question of this advice is whether it is…
During its era of colonisation, the Dutch territory expanded east to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and West to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, colonising Suriname in 1667. Prior to decolonisation, ‘all inhabitants of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were of Dutch nationality’. Suriname declared independence in 1975. Those on the newly independent territory…
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…
Third country national parents have a right to residence in the EU, if their expulsion would force their EU citizen minor child to leave the EU. In the judgment in Chavez-Vilchez, the Court of Justice EU held that the relation of dependency between a third country national parent and the EU citizen child has to be…
In January 2020 the Migration Law Clinic issued an expert opinion concerning a case in which the Dutch Council of State has referred preliminary questions on 25 September 2019. The case concerns a Polish national, who registered in the Netherlands on 9 November 2017. He worked in the Netherlands for five months. On 1 June 2018,…
This case concerns a Syrian minor boy, whose request for family reunification with his mother and brother was refused. The reason was a temporary law adopted in Sweden which provided that persons in need of subsidiary protection do not have the right to family reunification (while refugees do have that right). The boy and his…
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