Positive CJEU judgment in Chavez case (C-133/15)
On 10 May the CJEU issued its judgment in the case of Chavez-Vilchez and others about the interpretation of Article 20 TfEU.
The relevant date for considering the age of unaccompanied minor refugees for the purpose of family reunification
ECRE/ELENA Legal Note on Ageing Out and Family ReunificationIn January 2017 the Migration Law Clinic finalised an expert opinion in the context of a preliminary question of the district court of Amsterdam of 26 October 2016. The question concerns the right to family reunification of persons who were an unaccompanied minor at the moment of their asylum application…
Once a criminal, always a threat?
According to Dutch policy and case law the fact that there are ‘serious reasons for considering’ a person guilty of crimes defined in Article 1F Refugee Convention implies that his personal conduct is deemed forever to constitute a ‘genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society’ in the meaning…
Forced to leave but nowhere to return to
This expert opinion examines whether stateless Palestinians can in practice return to Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Furthermore it assesses which rights stateless Palestinians can claim in the Netherlands by virtue of their non-removability and regardless of their lack of a legal residential status. MLC_report stateless Palestinians_final april 2016
The Right of Residence under Directive 2004/38 of the Spouse of a Union Citizen in the Absence of a Valid Passport
This expert opinion seeks to answer the question whether a valid passport can be made a precondition to the right of residence and the issuance of a residence card in the case of a Union citizen’s third country national spouse under Directive 2004/38. It starts by explaining the nature of the right of residence of…
Welkom bij de Migration Law Clinic
The Migration Law Clinic of the VU University Amsterdam offers students a unique chance to gain profound knowledge in the field of migration law. The students of the Migration Law Clinic will conduct research on complex topics in the field of European migration law under supervision of the researchers of the migration law section. The…
