A former soldier in the Wagner Group was excluded by the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) from refugee status under Section 31(1)(b) of the Immigration Act for commission of a serious non-political crime, and he was granted a residence permit with restrictions under Section 74 of the Immigration Act. The applicant complained against this decision arguing that he was a privileged combatant, that the Wagner Group belonged to one of the parties to the conflict entitled to immunity from national...

The request for a preliminary ruling was made in a case concerning NP, a Syrian national from Aleppo, whose request for international protection was rejected by the Chairperson of the National Refugee Agency in Bulgaria (DAB) on 18 June 2024, with the reasoning that although the applicant did not qualify for refugee status, he was exposed to a real threat to his life or person due to the internal armed conflict and indiscriminate violence in Syria. As NP was believed to have safely spent...

According to the press release of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR):

“The case concerns the removal of the applicants to Bulgaria after they had expressed their intention of seeking asylum in Serbia. At approximately 12.15 a.m. on 3 February 2017, the Serbian authorities arrested the applicants on suspicion of having...

The case concerns a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the District Court of the Hague seated in Roermond before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the context of a negative decision on asylum and a return decision, which were based on confidential information issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The referring court sought clarification on whether, to comply with the recast...

The Regional Administrative Court of Cologne allowed the appeal submitted by a Nigerian asylum applicant, finding that the collection and storage of personal data by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) from security interviews conducted in Malta was unlawful.

The applicant arrived in Malta in January 2019, and Germany agreed to take over his case from a group of migrants with whom he arrived in Malta. The Federal Office...

The case concerns a request for a preliminary ruling submitted by the Irish Supreme Court before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on interpretation of Article 15 (1) of the recast Reception Conditions Directive (RCD). The referring court sought clarification on the lawfulness of the decision rejecting an applicant for international protection to have access to the labour market, on the ground that the delay in adopting a first instance decision on his case was attributable to...

B., a national of Peru, requested international protection in France claiming to have been the victim of persecution and serious harm by the Peruvian authorities and society, on the one hand, and by a criminal group, on the other, on account of gender identity. By decision of 27 November 2024, the French Office for Refugees and Stateless Persons rejected the request. The applicant challenged the decision before the National Court of Asylum (CNDA).

The CNDA allowed the appeal lodged...

According to the press release of the CJEU of 18 December 2025:

"Mr Alaa Hamoudi, a Syrian national, stated that he was a victim, on 28 and 29 April 2020, of a pushback. He claimed to have been part of a group of 22 people who disembarked on the island of Samos, in Greece, on 28 April 2020, for the purpose of seeking asylum. Once they arrived, the local police nevertheless confiscated...

According to the press release of the CJEU of 18 December 2025:

"AF and his child, BF, who was a minor at the time of the facts, are applicants for international protection residing in an accommodation centre in Milan. In 2023, the Prefecture of Milan ordered the withdrawal of the material reception conditions due to AF’s repeated refusal to be transferred, with his...

According to the press release of the CJEU of 18 December 2025:

"On 9 October 2016, a family of Syrian nationals of Kurdish ethnicity, composed of two parents and their four children, arrived on the Greek island of Milos, where they expressed their wish to lodged an application for international protection. However, only a few days later, that family was transferred to Türkiye,...

H, an Afghan national, applied for international protection in Denmark on 25 April 2021. A Eurodac search revealed that he had already applied for asylum in Romania on 5 March 2021. Romania accepted a take back request on 7 July 2021. On 19 July 2021, the applicant appealed before the Refugee Appeals Board the decision to transfer him to Romania. The appeal held suspensive effect. Following a decision by the Romanian authorities to suspend all inbound Dublin transfers due to the large influx...

According to the ECtHR legal summary:

"The applicants are a father and his two children (born in 2011 and 2013 respectively). They all used to live in Russia. In 2022 the first applicant took his children to Finland without their mother’s consent. After arriving in Finland, he applied for asylum on his own behalf and on behalf of the children.

The children’s mother...

B., an Afghan national, was accommodated in a reception facility for asylum applicants (PRAHDA) in Hoenheim while awaiting transfer to Bulgaria under the Dublin III Regulation. By a final decision of 5 February 2024, the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) ended his material reception conditions pursuant to Article L. 551-16(3) of the Code on the Entry and Residence of Foreigners and the Right of Asylum (CESEDA), after he refused to comply with a summons relating to his...

A., a child born in Finland on 29 August 2022, was the child of parents who were nationals of X State but who had been granted refugee status in Y State. The matter arose in the context of the family’s pending international protection proceedings in Finland, where the child’s nationality had not been established through reliable documentation. On its own initiative, the Finnish Immigration Service opened proceedings to determine the child’s nationality status and issued a...

The applicant, an Afghan national, requested international protection in the Netherlands on 8 December 2023, claiming fear of persecution by the Taliban upon return to Afghanistan due to imputed apostasy. He claimed that he had been arrested by the Taliban for having tattoos on his body and for not attending the mosque, and that he was accused of apostasy for these reasons. In addition, the applicant alleged that he was taken to a mosque where it was decided that he...