EDAL case summaries
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Family member, Family reunification, Family unity (right to), Refugee Status, Sponsor
Article 10(2) of Directive 2003/86 allows Member States to define autonomously the nature of the relationship of dependence between the sponsor and the family member not referred in art. 4, as long as the national law have regard of all the relevant circumstances of the refugee’s situation through a case-by-case approach.
Date: 12-12-2019
Country of Decision: Germany
Country of Applicant: Iraq
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Family reunification, Relevant Documentation, Relevant Facts, Visa
A birth certificate is not a decision within the meaning of paragraph 108 FamFG. As a child grows older the need of beeing looked after by both its parents decreases. There is no necessity for interim order in the case of family reunification, when the child is about to come of age, as the right to subsequent immigration is not lost upon the child’s coming of age according to the CJEU.
Date: 04-09-2018
Country of Decision: Greece
Country of Applicant: Syria
Keywords: Accelerated procedure, Dependant (Dependent person), Dublin Transfer, Effective access to procedures, Family member, Family reunification, Family unity (right to), First country of asylum, Inadmissible application, Individual assessment, Manifestly unfounded application, More favourable provisions, Personal interview, Safe third country
The case concerns an application for the annulment of the decision of the Appeals Committee which rejected the applicant’s previous application to overturn the decision of the Regional Asylum Office of Samos whereby he was denied international protection. The Court determined that the case was inadmissible, accepted the relevant justifications given by the Appeals Committee and rejected the application.
Date: 13-04-2018
Country of Decision: Sweden
Country of Applicant: Eritrea
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Family member, Family reunification, Relevant Documentation, Standard of proof
The Appellant and the appellant’s children were applying for leave to remain in Sweden due to affiliation with their husband and father respectively who had been granted a permanent right of residency in Sweden as a refugee - despite them not being able to prove their identities. Due to the appellant’s lack of relevant documentation for her and the children, the court had to consider the circumstances in which a person can be granted alleviation of evidentiary burden in terms of proving their identity.
The Migration Court of Appeal granted the appeal and held that...
Date: 05-03-2018
Country of Decision: Spain
Country of Applicant: Syria
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Family reunification, Family unity (right to), Subsidiary Protection
The applicants appealed the decision to deny family reunification and family extension in relation to the refugee status of their daughter. The Administration denied this claim based on the fact that the applicants have a different nationality than their daughter, which would contravene the requirement established in article 40.a) of Law 12/2009. Article 41 of said Act, however, addresses this specific situation; However, the requirement of developing this provision by regulation had not been complied by Spain. The Court assesses whether this article should be...
Date: 15-12-2017
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Kuwait
Keywords: Best interest of the child, Child Specific Considerations, Dependant (Dependent person), Effective access to procedures, Family member, Family reunification, Family unity (right to), Refugee Status, Relevant Facts, Responsibility for examining application
Judicial review to challenge the failure/refusal of the Secretary of State for the Home Department (“SoS”) to determine the application of the applicant’s spouse and two youngest children for family reunification in the UK on the following grounds: a failure to apply the SoS published policy; irrationality; breach of all the family members’ rights under Art. 8 ECHR; and (regarding the two children in the UK), breach of the duties owed under s.55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (“the 2009 Act”).
The Upper Tribunal found that:
1) the Home Office family...
Date: 25-04-2017
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Congo (DRC), Lebanon, United Kingdom
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Best interest of the child, Dependant (Dependent person), Family member, Family reunification, Family unity (right to), Persecution (acts of), Personal circumstances of applicant, Refugee Status, Relevant Documentation, Sponsor, Well-founded fear
The Immigration Rules (“the Rules”) minimum income requirements (“the MIR”) for individuals who have a right to live in the UK who wish to bring their non-EEA citizen spouses to live with them are not open to legal challenge.
The Rules fail unlawfully to give effect to the duty of the Secretary of State (“the SoS”) in respect of the welfare of children under s.55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (“the 2009 Act”), however the challenge to the validity of the Rules was dismissed.
To ensure that their decisions are compatible with the Human Rights Act...
Date: 22-02-2017
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Dublin Transfer, Family reunification, Responsibility for examining application
The absence of an individual right of the applicant to challenge the determination of the State responsible to examine their asylum claim on Dublin II grounds does not prohibit the autonomous application of ECHR Article 8 to decisions to remove persons from one Member State to another. However, taking into account the significance of the Regulation and the need to preserve its effectiveness, an especially compelling case would have to be demonstrated to deny removal following a Dublin II decision. When the Secretary of State has certified such human rights claims as clearly...
Date: 22-03-2016
Country of Decision: Slovenia
Country of Applicant: Somalia
Keywords: Best interest of the child, Dependant (Dependent person), Family member, Family reunification, Family unity (right to), Sponsor
The State is obliged to adopt legislation which allows the refugee to actually exercise the right to respect for family life in its territory. Under Article 53(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia the scope of family life firstly includes the nuclear family and secondly, where specific factual circumstances dictate, members of the family who are not nuclear but who are similar or perform the same function.
The legislator limited the right to family reunification by enacting an exhaustive definition of eligible family members for reunification, excluding any other form...
Date: 14-01-2015
Country of Decision: Ireland
Country of Applicant: Somalia
Keywords: Dependant (Dependent person), Family member, Family reunification, Refugee Status
A beneficiary of refugee status sought family reunification unsuccessfully for her niece and nephew who she referred to as her own children; who had been orphaned; and whom she was not capable of formally adopting owing to the absence of available procedures in Somalia or where they were living in Ethiopia. The children had attained the age of majority after the Application had been made, but prior to a decision. The Minister refused family reunification on the basis that they were not dependent.
The Applicant was successful in her Judicial Review as the Court found that the...
Date: 22-01-2013
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