Are you a master student or exchange student and do you want to write expert opinions in real migration law cases? The Migration Law Clinic is looking for talented students who are interested to participate in the Clinic starting from October 2018. The Clinic is open to master students in law or criminology and exchange students of…
On 2 May 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in joined cases C‑331/16 and C‑366/16 concerning the right to free movement of persons, who have been excluded form refugee status on the basis of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention. The Migration Law Clinic published an expert opinion on this issue…
On 12 April 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in case C-550/16. This case concerns the right of unaccompanied minors to reunifiy with their parents. According to the Family Reunification Directive (Directive 2003/86/EC) unaccompanied minors, who have received a refugee status, have a right to family reunification with their parents.…
In November 2017 the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (AJD) has asked questions to the State Secretary about evidentiary issues in family reunification cases of Eritreans, who have received an asylum status in the Netherlands. The AJD asks the State Secretary to explain the current evidentiary policy in Eritrean family reunification cases and…
On 14 November the district court of Haarlem referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning evidentiary requirements in family reuinification cases. In May 2017 the Migration Law Clinic published an expert opinion on the Dutch evidentiary requirements in Eritrean family reunification cases. The expert opinion examines whether the rejection by…
On 26 October 2017 Advocate General Bot gave his opinion about case C-550/16 concerning the right to family reunification of persons who were an unaccompanied minor at the moment of their asylum application but adults at the moment their asylum status was granted. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is asked to decide which moment in…
