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: Syria from December 2025, to conclude that no areas in Syria have an exceptionally high level or a high level of indiscriminate violence and that indiscriminate violence only occurs at a level which is not high and that there is no real risk for a civilian to be personally affected by indiscriminate violence in Damascus.

The Board reversed the decisions of the Danish Immigration Service and granted residence permits to seven persons pursuant to Sections 7(1) and 7(2) of the Aliens Act. Six of these are derived status permits, where the applicant does not have an independent asylum claim, but where the permit was granted based on the applicant's close family connection to a person who has a residence permit pursuant to Section 7. One of the permits was granted to an applicant with an independent asylum basis.

In the other three cases, the Board upheld the refusal of the Danish Immigration Service to provide a residence permit pursuant to Section 7 of the Aliens Act.