The Right to Free Movement of EU citizens: Leaving and Re-entering after an Expulsion Order

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,…

The legality of the detention of third-country nationals in order to ensure the passing back to the Member State where they enjoy international protection

This project concerns three cases (CJEU Case C‐673/19), in which the Council of State has referred a preliminary question on 4 September 2019. The question concerns the detention of migrants, who have received an asylum status in another EU Member State and have applied for asylum in the Netherlands. Their asylum applications have been declared…

CJEU judgment in case concerning visa representation

In a judgment of 29 July 2019 the Court of Justice answered preliminary questions referred by the district court of Utrecht, the Netherlands (Case C-680/17). The Migration Law Clinic had issued an expert opinion in this case, which was sent to the CJEU. The case concerned the request of Sri Lankan nationals for a Schengenvisa for the Netherlands. On the basis…

Ghent University wins Moot Court Competition

On 9 and 10 May 2019, 12 student teams from all over the world competed in the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The teams pleaded in a case concerning Mr. Moreno, a Venezualan asylum seeker, who applied for asylum on the fictitious Island of Caraiba. Judges from…

Migration Law Clinic Third Party Intervener at ECtHR

The European Court of Human Rights has accepted requests of the Migration Law Clinic to join the proceedings as a third party intervener in two cases against Sweden. It concerns the case M.T. v Sweden (Appl. no. 22105/18) and the case S.S. v Sweden (Appl. no. 43654/18). The first case is about a Syrian unaccompanied minor, whose…

Two judgments CJEU in ‘clinic cases’

On 13 and 14 March 2019 the CJEU issued judgments in two cases, with regard to which the Migration Law Clinic has written an expert opinion. One judgment concerns evidence in Eritrean family reunification cases. The other concerns withdrawal of a family reunification and long term residence status on the basis of the fraud committed…