The Federal Administrative Court ruled that third-country nationals, who have been granted international or subsidiary protection in another Member State, but who cannot be returned due to a risk of inhuman or degrading treatment, may be threatened with removal to their country of origin if their asylum application in Germany has been rejected. 

The cases concerned Iraqi nationals who have been...

An Iraqi national requested asylum in Germany at the beginning of March 2017 after having previously applied for international protection in Finland where the asylum authority rejected the application in May 2016. The appeal procedures in Finland were unsuccessful, and the applicant was notified on 5 April 2017. In Germany, the Federal Office for Asylum and Migration (BAMF) rejected the application as inadmissible in...

The Refugee Appeals Board examined ten test cases concerning Syrian nationals from Damascus or the Rif Damascus provinces, the first to be decided since the fall of the Assad regime.

In all cases, the Board concluded that the general conditions in Syria cannot justify international protection. The Board referred the EUAA's Country Guidance:...

A stateless Palestinian applicant born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon, requested asylum in Denmark in 2021, arguing that he was suffering from an illness and feared dying if he returned to Lebanon, as he would not receive proper treatment. He stated that, due to the shortage of medicine and treatment in Lebanon, he would not be able to obtain his vital medication there, either from hospitals or...

The request for a preliminary ruling was made in proceedings between the State Secretary for Justice and Security in the Netherlands and X, a Syrian national, concerning the failure of the State Secretary to take a decision within the statutory six-month time limit, on the application for international protection lodged by X in the Netherlands on 17 February 2023.

X complained about the inaction of the...

A.B., a Georgian national, applied for international protection in Ireland on 12 July 2022, submitting that he and his brother had been physically and verbally threatened over farmland ownership by a man with influence in criminal circles. He stated that the man’s brother was a politician from the Georgian Dream party and had influence within the police, which was why the applicant did not report the threats to...

The applicant, a Liberian national, arrived in Malta on 24 November 2021. He was rescued at sea and taken to hospital, where he first provided information that he was a minor (fifteen years old) and that he had arrived unaccompanied. As COVID-19 pandemic measures were in place, he was placed under quarantine. On 29 November, he was transferred to the Ħal Far detention centre (also known as...

An asylum applicant received penalty payments from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) because his asylum application was not decided within the applicable time limits. Subsequently, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) requested the applicant to provide a personal contribution to the cost of reception.  COA made this request in line with Article 20 of the Regulation on...

According to the CJEU press release of 5 March 2026:

"A Moroccan national who entered Finland illegally in September 2022, despite being subject to a ban on entry to the Schengen area, was detained on four occasions by the authorities of that Member State with a view to his removal to his country of...

According to the CJEU press release of 5 March 2026:

"At the end of 2022, Italy notified the other Member States that, provisionally and subject to exceptions, it would no longer accept transfers of applicants for international protection under the Dublin III Regulation. It thus refuses to take charge of any...