CJEU: The Court rules that Member States are obliged to actively cooperate with the applicant and that a retracted false statement cannot result in a negative decision on credibility.
On the 29th of June 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in its judgment C‑756/21. The case concerned a Pakistani national who unsuccessfully applied for international protection in Ireland, on the basis of a false statement which he retracted...
United Kingdom: Court of Appeal rules Rwanda plan unlawful as Rwanda is not a safe third country
On the 29th of June 2023, the Court of Appeal ruled in its judgment AAA and others v. The Secretary of State for the Home Department. The case concerned ten individual asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Sudan and Albania and one charity, Asylum Aid. The...
Belgium: Brussel’s Court ruled that Belgium violates the Civil Code by not guaranteeing asylum seekers’ rights to seek asylum and receive reception and by failing to enforce judicial decisions
On the 29th of June 2023, the Brussels Court ruled in its judgment no. 2022/4618/A. The case concerns a collective complaint by several organisations claiming that since the end of the summer of 2021, the reception network of the Federal Agency for the Reception of...
CJEU: Third-country parent of dependent EU citizen child, who has never lived in the EU, has a right of residence provided that the child resides with him in the Member State of his nationality
On the 22nd of June 2023, the CJEU delivered its judgment C‑459/20. The case concerned X who legally resided in the Netherlands where she was married to A, a Dutch national, with whom she had a child with Dutch nationality. The child was born in Thailand where he has...