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Recent EUAA publications on asylum jurisprudence:

Age Assessments of Applicants for International Protection: Analysis of Case Law (2017-2026) (27 October 2026).
Interpretation and Application of Exclusion Grounds in International Protection (13 October 2026).
EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, Issue 3/2026 for asylum judgments from June to August 2026. To receive the Quarterly by email, please subscribe here.
Jurisprudence related to LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection (September 2026).
Jurisprudence related to Asylum Pronounced by the Court of Justice of the EU in 2025 (March 2026).
Jurisprudence related to the Dublin Procedure in 2025 (Feb 2026).

EUAA Case Law Grant: Second jurisprudential analysis was drafted by Comillas Pontifical University on Jurisprudence on Asylum Pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights in 2024-2025 (Call EUBA-EUAA-2025-ASYLUMCASELAW), January 2026.

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Recent EUAA&#160;publications on asylum jurisprudence&#58;&#160;

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	<li><a href="/Documents/2026_jurisprudence_age_assessments_EN.pdf">Age Assessments of Applicants for International Protection&#58;&#160;Analysis of Case Law (2017-2026)</a> (27 October 2026).</li>
	<li><a href="/Documents/2026_exclusion_grounds_case_law_EN.pdf">Interpretation and Application of Exclusion Grounds in International Protection</a>&#160;(13 October 2026).</li>
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	EUAA <a href="/Publications/2026_EUAA_Quarterly_Overview_Asylum_Case_Law_Issue3_EN.pdf">Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, Issue 3/2026</a>&#160;for asylum judgments from June to August 2026.&#160;To receive the Quarterly&#160;by email, please&#160;<a href="/pages/subscribe.aspx" target="_blank">subscribe here</a>.
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	<a href="/Documents/2026_factsheet47_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_EN.pdf">Jurisprudence related to LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection</a> (September 2026).
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	<a href="/Documents/Factsheet42_CJEU_jurisprudence_EN.pdf">Jurisprudence related to Asylum Pronounced by the Court of Justice of the EU in 2025</a> (March 2026).
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	<a href="https&#58;//www.euaa.europa.eu/publications/jurisprudence-related-dublin-procedure-2025">Jurisprudence related to the Dublin Procedure in 2025</a> (Feb 2026).
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EUAA Case Law Grant&#58; Second jurisprudential analysis was drafted by Comillas Pontifical University on&#160;<a href="/Documents/2026_ECtHR_jurisprudence_asylum-EN.pdf">Jurisprudence on Asylum Pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights in 2024-2025</a> (Call EUBA-EUAA-2025-ASYLUMCASELAW), January 2026.

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The EUAA Information and Analysis Sector&#160;can provide, upon request, online sessions on&#160;how to use&#160;the EUAA Case Law Database. We also provide presentations on the latest jurisprudence interpreting the Common European Asylum System.&#160;For more information, contact us at&#160;caselawdb@euaa.europa.eu

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08/10/2026

EU: The CJEU ruled that Article 10(3)(a) of the Family Reunification Directive must be interpreted as meaning that the application for family reunification by parents whose child arrived in a Member State as an unaccompanied minor but reached the age of majority while their international protection application was still being processed must be submitted within a reasonable time from the moment when the minor was granted refugee status. In addition, the reasonableness of this time must be determined by taking into account the particular circumstances of the case.

The request for a preliminary ruling was submitted

01/10/2026

EU: The CJEU clarified that Member States are precluded from an automatic suspension of the examination of asylum applications lodged by beneficiaries of temporary protection during the period of validity of the temporary protection status. It also held that, in exceptional circumstances, the decision-making period can be exceeded due to an objective impossibility to strictly comply with the time limits, to avoid saturating the asylum system.

According to the court's press release

24/09/2026

EU: The CJEU clarified that Article 17(1) of the Dublin III Regulation must be interpreted as meaning that any Member State may decide to examine an application for international protection submitted to it, including when the Member State responsible for examining that application has been designated pursuant to Article 3(2) first subparagraph of that Regulation.

The request for a preliminary ruling was submitted by the Czech Supreme Administrative Court

11/11/2026

NL: The Council of State ruled that the minister had failed to adequately substantiate its country policy on Syria, which classified the level of indiscriminate violence as relatively low throughout the country, as it did not sufficiently take into account the humanitarian consequences of the prolonged armed conflict when applying Article 15(c) of the recast QD. It clarified that humanitarian circumstances may be relevant even when they are indirect or result from violence occurring during an earlier period of the same armed conflict, provided that they maintain a sufficiently direct causal connection with the indiscriminate violence.

A Palestinian* applicant from Syria applied for asylum on 1 November 2023. He was imprisoned and tortured by the former regime in Syria because he was accused of having participated in...

05/11/2026

NL: The District Court of The Hague, seated in Amsterdam, ruled that the Qualification Regulation does not prohibit the granting of indefinite asylum residence permits, but that the legislator is entitled to abolish them. It held that the adverse consequences of the immediate abolition, including the absence of transitional arrangements for pending applications, had been sufficiently taken into account by the legislator and did not warrant setting aside the legislation through contra-legem review.

Two Turkish applicants were granted an asylum residence permit by decision of 1 September 2021 within the context of family reunification. The permit was valid until 2 July 2026. On 12 January 2026, they submitted an application for an asylum residence permit for an indefinite period. On 2 July 2026, the Minister for Asylum...

03/11/2026

NL: The District Court of the Hague held that the Netherlands could continue to rely on the principle of mutual trust in relation to transfers to Italy under the AMMR. It found that Italy had sufficient reception capacity to accommodate persons transferred under the AMMR and that the absence of reserved reception places for such persons did not amount to a systemic deficiency. It further ruled that the unilateral suspension of take-charge and take-back procedures by Italy, and the resulting refusal of transfers, did not in themselves establish such a risk in the absence of other evidence of systemic deficiencies.

An Eritrean national submitted an asylum application on 15 July 2026. The Minister for Asylum and Migration requested Italy to take charge of her on 5 August 2026, following Eurodac information indicating...