On Thursday 22 June 2017 the Migration Law Clinic received the EU pro bono award. This award is issued by the Good Lobby, an organisation which aims to forge unconventional partnerships to lobby for the public interest. The EU Pro Bono Awards celebrate collaboration between citizen professionals and civil society organisations working for the public interest at…
On 23 May the Migration Law Clinic published a new expert opinion titled ‘The ‘bewijsnood’ policy of the Dutch immigration service: A correct interpretation of the Family Reunification Directive or an unlawful hurdle?’ The expert opinion concerns Eritrean asylum status holders in the Netherlands, who try to be reunited with their family members left behind. An asylum…
This expert opinion is about Eritrean asylum status holders in the Netherlands, who try to be reunited with their family members left behind. An asylum status holder can apply for reunification with his family left abroad, within three months following the decision granting his or her asylum status. One of the conditions for family reunification is…
On 10 May the CJEU issued its judgment in the case of Chavez-Vilchez and others about the interpretation of Article 20 TfEU.
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…
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…
