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External processing of applications for international protection in the EU

By Steve Peers, EU Law Analysis,
Last autumn's huge loss of lives near Lampedusa, when hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean, was one of the latest and most dramatic death tolls in the recent history of irregular crossing of that sea. It ought to have led to a complete rethink of EU policy toward border…

Rights of residence of TCN family members within a Union citizen's home state: Comment on Cases C-456/12 O and B and C-457/12 S and G, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber)

By Catherine Taroni, EUtopia Law,
Context Directive 2004/38 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely grants qualifying Union citizens rights of residence in Member States other than their own, and allows family members to derive rights of residence from the Union citizen. As…

A simple guide to the Tier 4 visa application process for international students

By Immigration Advice Service (IAS),
International students all have the added step of applying for their UK study visa. With the extensive amount of organisation that goes into preparing to study abroad, the application process for a student visa can often be seen as nothing more than a daunting hassle. The UK has a points…

Getting the Facts for Migrants and the Courts

By Geoffrey Care,
My first encounter with the importance of a much deeper and wider knowledge of decisions in cases and factual backgrounds which could have an impact on immigration appeals, with which I had become involved as an adjudicator way back in 1979, was when I was dished out with the limited…

Supreme Court rules on EU conditions for asylum seekers

By Dominic Ruck Keene, UK Human Rights Blog,
EM (Eritrea) and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 12 The Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal's decision on the correct test for when an asylum seeker or refugee resists their return to another EU country (here Italy) in which they first sought…

Uncharted territory? The European Charter and Fair Trial Rights

By Anita Davies, EUtopia Law,
The case of ZZ v SSHD [2014] EWCA Civ 7 shows that, in certain circumstances, the European Charter may come to an individual's rescue in terms of procedural protection even when the European Convention of Human Rights does not apply. While this news will no doubt be of concern to some…

Afghan wins refuge from Daily Express

By Athalie Matthews, Bindmans LLP,
The business of the law can tend to harden the heart – but every now and then a case comes along that drives off the spectre of compassion fatigue. This was the effect of a recent libel claim in which I obtained substantial damages and published apologies for a 20-year-old Afghan…

Understanding the "new migration age"

By Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge Migration Research Network,
Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Co-Convenors of the new Cambridge Migration Research Network, discuss the Network's rationale and aims, and our preoccupation with the impact of migrant populations. Immigration and migration have become symbolic of the 21st…

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