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…
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…
Are you a master student or exchange student and do you want to write expert opinions in real migration law cases? There are still a couple of spots open for participation in the Migration Law Clinic and its new pilot programme, the EU Citizen Rights Corner, so we have extended the deadline for applications to 25 January…
On 8 November 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice ruled in Joined Cases C-704/20 PPU and C-39/21 PPU that national courts must review the legality of a detention measure of a third country national ex officio. This means that they must declare a detention measure illegal and order the release of the…
On 7 September 2022, the Court of Justice ruled that the right of a third-country national parent with their Union citizen-child under Article 20 TfEU (henceforth: the Chavez-Vilchez right of residence) cannot be considered ‘temporary’ in the meaning of Article 3 of the Long Term Residence Directive. The Migration Law Clinic issued an expert opinion…
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