CJEU: Court ruled in favour of ex officio examination of the conditions for ordering and maintaining detention of a third-country national under EU law

8 Nov 2022 | News

On 8 November 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union gave a judgment in C, B and X (joined cases C-704/20 and C-39/21). The preliminary ruling concerned the decision to detain third-country nationals, including two asylum applicants. The referring courts...

ECtHR Sanchez-Sanchez v. the United Kingdom: Court found that extradition to the United States would be consistent with Article 3 of the Convention

3 Nov 2022 | News

On 3 November 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case Sanchez-Sanchez v. the United Kingdom (Application no. 22854/20). The case concerned a Mexican national who was arrested in the United Kingdom following a request from the United States...

Germany: Administrative Court dismisses appeal regarding the right to employment for a third-country national fleeing Ukraine

26 Oct 2022 | News

On 26 October 2022, the Administrative Court of Baden-Wurttemberg gave its decision in a case regarding a third-country national who fled from Ukraine to Germany. The applicant was a Nigerian citizen who was studying in Ukraine until the war broke out and arrived in...

CJEU: The reflection period provided for victims of human trafficking can apply to asylum seekers and should also halt a Dublin transfer

20 Oct 2022 | News

On 20 October, the Court of Justice of the EU gave a judgment in O.T.E v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (case C-66/21). The case concerned a Nigerian national who applied for asylum in the Netherlands after several applications in Italy and who reported...

ECtHR M.T. and Others v. Sweden: No violation of the Convention for a three-year temporary suspension for family reunification with a beneficiary of subsidiary protection

20 Oct 2022 | News

On 20 October 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) gave a judgment in the case M.T. and Others v. Sweden (Application no. 22105/18). The case concerned the Swedish authorities’ refusal to grant residence permits to a mother and her son who were in Syria...

CJEU: Returns Directive does not preclude legislation in which a right to stay entails the implicit withdrawal of a return decision

20 Oct 2022 | News

On 20 October 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment of UP (case C-825/21), concerning a Congolese asylum seeker whose international protection claim and request for a residence permit on medical grounds were both rejected by...