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  #Afghanistan country information repository Asylos, ARC Foundation and Clifford Chance have put together a country information package to help support Afghan asylum claims. It is a collection of media, United Nations and NGO reports on all sorts of human rights issues, from the application of Sharia law to attacks on disability activists. It is also bang up to date, with a new edition every Thursday for the time being.  The document is not something to throw into an asylum case in its entirety. Asylum seekers and their lawyers should go through it to pick out relevant evidence and submit that as part of the claim. Anyone who has done so already and has feedback is being invited to join a one-hour focus group. To take part, or suggest material for inclusion, email JulieM@refugee-action.org.uk. https://www.freemovement.org.uk/afghanistan-country-information-repository/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=afghanistan-country-information-repository&utm_sour...

      Thursday 24 June 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm GMT Feeling Safe Finding Safety – Conversations around being LGBTIQ+, seeking asylum and how we can ensure people are safe and feel safe. We will be talking with experts on how we can provide the best kind of support for LGBTIQ+ people who have been forcibly displaced. Our conversations are about sharing stories on challenges and successes in service provision and looking forward, how can we do better. Speakers: Tina Dixson (she/her) Co-founder Forcibly Displaced People Network Tina has dedicated her career to working on the issues of gender and sexuality being driven by her lived experience of being a proud queer refugee woman as well as her academic and professional policy expertise in these areas. She is the co-founder of the  Forcibly Displaced People Network  (FDPN), the only registered LGBTIQ+ refugee-led organisation in Australia and a co-convenor ...

Mobile Info Team is determined to work towards a future where asylum seekers and refugees in Greece have fair access to asylum and are treated with the respect their humanity deserves. We assist families and individual asylum seekers by providing dedicated, long-term support during their asylum and family reunification cases. We research legal and political developments relevant to migrants in Greece and Europe and disseminate information through our daily hotline and Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/mobileinfoteam). We attend community centres and refugee camps to provide up to date information on the asylum process and assist individual family reunification cases in through the process. We also provide advocacy at different levels, including collecting testimonies on human rights abuses such as illegal push backs. What we need: A long-term caseworker who has graduated from a degree in Law who can commit to working for a period of at least 6 months. Preference will be ...

Since 1 January 2021 people seeking asylum in Europe, be they adults or children, have been far less likely to reunite with their family in the UK. A vital legal route has been closed, as the Brexit transition period has come to end and the Dublin III Regulation can no longer be relied upon. In the UK, the family reunification provisions of Dublin III were little known even to immigration lawyers. Given the UK’s geographical location, Dublin III was most commonly utilised to push people back to fingerprints as opposed to forwards to family. The article explains what the end of Dublin III means for asylum seekers trying to join family in the UK. Continue here:  https://www.freemovement.org.uk/briefing-how-brexit-leaves-refugee-families-stranded-in-greece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=briefing-how-brexit-leaves-refugee-families-stranded-in-greece&utm_source=Free+Movement&utm_campaign=fe68f560b7-Daily+emails+everything&utm_medium=email&u...

  Het vervolgd worden door derden waartegen de overheid niet wil of kan beschermen wordt door de regering Trump gezien als niet vallend onder het Vluchtelingenverdrag terwijl wij hier dat wel vinden. Daar wordt het afgedaan dat deze mensen niet tot een vervolgde groep horen die beschermd wordt door het Verdrag. Lees dit artikel eens en kijk eens hoe we onze Amerikaanse collega's tips kunnen geven. Ik zie bijvoorbeeld dat Amerika wel partij is bij het BuPoVerdrag (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) wat een equivalent heeft van artikel 3 EVRM For Central American migrants fleeing gang violence, winning protection in the United States can be particularly difficult (....) “It’s very difficult to define the motives of the person who’s torturing you,” said Ruth Wasem, who specialized in immigration policy at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service before becoming a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Some attorneys have argued that acting in...

"The Cameroonian government, controlled by French-speaking groups, has been targeting English-speaking cultural groups, known as anglophones, for years in an escalating civil conflict. Many anglophones, including a journalist who won her case in San Diego in 2019, have sought asylum from that persecution in the United States. In Congo, people who oppose the political party in power — and even election observers who report inconsistencies — have had to flee for their lives, including a family that was separated from the father at the San Diego-Tijuana border in 2019. But in a system known for its capriciousness that has been steadily restricted under the Trump administration, many of these asylum seekers with seemingly legitimate cases have been ordered deported."  Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-13/cameroonian-asylum-seekers-fear   Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid...

A senior high court judge has halted a charter flight hours before up to 20 asylum seekers who crossed the Channel to the UK in small boats were due to be forcibly removed to Spain, a country they had previously passed through. The judge, Sir Duncan Ouseley, ordered the flight to be grounded because of concerns that the asylum seekers due to fly might be left destitute in the streets of Madrid, as happened to another group earlier this month. It is thought to be only the second time an entire Home Office charter flight has been grounded by a high court action. The rest of the article you can find here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/16/uk-judge-halts-home-office-flight-to-remove-asylum-seekers   Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk gerust eens rond. Zelf graag wat willen plaatsen? Mail dan webmaster@vreemdeling...

On 24 – 25 August COC Nederland organizes the conference WE– Connect Europe. A conference about LGBTQI+ asylum and migration. WE is about all of us. And how we as groups, organizations and activists can connect Europe. Alongside other migration and LGBTQI+ representatives, IOM - UN Migration will be discussing the developments and challenges newcomers face when finding peace in the Netherlands. There will be panel discussions, workshops, self-organized activities and plenty of opportunities for networking. 🌈🧡 PANEL DISCUSSIONS Building communities Safe spaces for LBQ women Asylum procedures Trans* newcomers WORKSHOPS Rainbow newcomers, the cocktail project From migration to peace Effect of queer migration and its process on the health of LGBTQ+ Workshop Intersex Asylum Cases – How to Support an Intersex Refugee Permission to narrate FOCUS GROUPS Reception centers Asylum procedures Rights & Awareness In...

Can I have your attention for a very interesting article on decisionmaking regarding asylum. While people have to work within a legal framework the person who interviews or decides has a certain freedom and people also work differently. "On the third day of the asylum procedure, the asylum seeker will be given the opportunity to explain why he fled from his country of origin. [1] During the interview, his asylum motives will therefore take centre stage. An interpreter will be present during this interview, and a volunteer from the Netherlands Refugee Network or the asylum seeker’s lawyer may be present, but often is not. On the basis of this interview, the Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) decision-maker will assess the merits of the asylum application in combination with what the IND knows about the situation in the country of origin. This interview is largely free of form. The hearing officer asks a number of standard questions that are prescribed in the...

Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)                                                                                                DH (Particular Social Group: Mental Health) Afghanistan [2020] UKUT 223 (IAC) THE IMMIGRATION ACTS Hearing on                 Decision promulgated on 29 May 2020 Before UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE HANSON Between DH (BY HIS LITIGATION FRIEND SALLY PRESTT) (A...

Court of Justice extends the concept of authorities enabled to receive applications for international protection under the Asylum Procedures Directive The Court of Justice has just given its judgment in Ministerio Fiscal (Autorité susceptible de recevoir une demande de protection internationale) ( C-36/20 PPU ), a preliminary ruling requested by the Court of Preliminary Investigation No 3 of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain ( Juzgado de Instrucción nº 3 de San Bartolomé de Tirajana ). The case concerns the interpretation of Article 6(1) and Article 26 of the Asylum Procedures Directive 2013/32 and of Article 17(1) and (2) and Article 8(3) of Directive 2013/33 on standards for the reception of applicants for international protection. The request was made against the background of a refoulement decision taken, inter alia, against a Malian national who made an application for international protection to the referring court after the boat in which he was travelling was inte...

Two important (but completely different) points arise from the Upper Tribunal’s decision in MH (review; slip rule; church witnesses) Iran [2020] UKUT 125 (IAC) , one concerning religious conversion cases and the other concerning clerical errors in a written decision. “Expert” evidence on religious conversion The first is quite a significant watering down of the Court of Session’s decision in TF and MA v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] CSIH 58 , one of the few important immigration decisions to be decided north of the border. That case opened the door to fellow church-goers giving “expert evidence” on an asylum seeker’s conversion to a religion that would see them persecuted if returned to their country of origin. On this point, the Upper Tribunal differed from the Court of Session. It referred to the Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP (Scotland) [2016] UKSC 6 which said that a true “expert” would be backed up by a “reliable ...

Most ‘asylum seeker’ crime is not committed by real refugees fleeing persecution but by people coming from safe countries. Asylum seekers who have been given official refugee status lose their residency permit if convicted of a crime which carries a six month jail term. In the 3.5 years to June 2019, 90 asylum requests were rejected and 100 refugees lost their residency rights because of a criminal conviction. Read more at DutchNews.nl: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/04/most-refugee-crime-is-not-committed-by-real-asylum-seekers/ Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk gerust eens rond. Zelf graag wat willen plaatsen? Mail dan webmaster@vreemdelingenrecht.com In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor de krantenl...

Airport operation to block Albanians, Georgians from claiming asylum is ‘scaled back’ The tougher immigration checks at Dublin Airport saw a sharp drop in asylum claims Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 01:33 Conor Lally It was decided Albanians and Georgians would be checked by immigration officers or gardaí going to the steps of the aircraft to meet them. Photograph: Kate Geraghty Continue here: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/airport-operation-to-block-albanians-georgians-from-claiming-asylum-is-scaled-back-...

As of 2021 the UK will not be part of the Dublin Agreement anymore while still being a memberstate of the Refugee Convention and the ECHR. So when you are rejected on the continent and you try in England you will not be send back to say Italy. Unfortunately that will bring drowned people to our shores and criminals to our ports. And those Brexiteers who hated seeing a Polish worker might be in for something they have not bargained for. I recommend reading this article: EU asylum law after Brexit Due to the Common European Asylum System, Brexit will also affect those claiming asylum in the UK. Asylum law is based on a variety of international, European Union and domestic legislation.  The international law — the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) — will not be affected by Brexit. Despite the name, the ECHR is not an EU treaty. Domestic legal provisions — such as the asylum section of the Immigration Rules — will also remain substant...

Refugee Research Online is looking for contributors. We're an online platform for academic and non-academic research on issues facing people seeking asylum and refugees. We've got a variety of content from around the world including essays, interviews, reviews, abstracts and policy briefs among many other things. Refugee Research Online is an independent website that was previously hosted by The University of Melbourne. If you're interested in contributing please follow the link here: http://refugeeresearchonline.org/contribute/ . Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk gerust eens rond. Zelf graag wat willen plaatsen? Mail dan webmaster@vreemdelingenrecht.com In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor ...

by Maryhill Integration Network Tuesday 25 June 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 This event will explore the different ways asylum seekers and refugees use their experiences and voices to positively affect change in their own lives and in the lives of others. Partipants will also seek to discuss what integration means in modern society. The presentation will also demonstrate how groups can build a greater sense of ownership over a project, by using creative methods such as film-making and poster design. Participants will explore the use of community voices in research, dissecting the common relationship between author and subject, and investigate the implications for this. Please register here for the presentation. Gannochy Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School Building University Avenue University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ   https://www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/events/author-and-subject-people-seeking-asylum-and-refuge-affecting-change/ Interessan...

Stathis Poularakis , Legal advisor - Advocacy Officer Médecins du Monde – Greece* * Reblogged from the EDAL blog . An earlier version of this article was published in Greek on immigration.gr blog. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Médecins du Monde – Greece. Special thanks go to Evangelia Tzironi, PhD Candidate at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for proofreading the article. In mid-August 2018, Germany, Greece and Spain agreed on the sketchy details of the initial migration compromise deal that was reached on the sidelines of the EU Summit in Brussels in late June 2018. In this context, the Ministers on Migration of Germany and Greece reaffirmed their commitment by exchange of letters, to work towards common European solutions and to avoid any unilateral measure with respect to migration and asylum.       n pa...

France: National Court of Asylum must take into account all provided documents and must motivate reasons to set a document aside. Summary of the decision in English here: https://t.co/yaa8FHRmpH pic.twitter.com/0mFmWf02hy — EDAL (@EDAL_EU) July 18, 2018 France: National Court of Asylum must take into account all provided documents and must motivate reasons to set a document aside On 21 June 2018, the French Council of State ruled in case no. 413978 concerning an Armenian couple whose asylum applications were rejected by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) and whose appeals were rejected by the National Court of Asylum. The Council of State recalled that the National Court of Asylum, when assessing the credibility of the claims submitted by an asylum applicant, must take into account all the documents provided by the applicant. In particular, where the applicant submits documents that contain detailed information relating to...

By Silvia Bartolini Introduction On 12 April 2018 the Court of Justice of the EU (hereinafter, the “Court”) delivered a key ruling in A & S (case C-550/16 ), which hopefully marks a conscious step towards the creation of an effective EU system for the protection of children in migration. As the Commission points out, the protection of children in all stages of migration should be “ first and foremost about upholding European values of respect for human rights, dignity and solidarity. It is also about enforcing European Union law and respecting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and international human rights law on the rights of the child ” ( COM (2017) 211 final ). Yet their vulnerability is often denied or forgotten by Member States, especially in the mist of the so-called ‘migratory crisis’. A & S brings forward the issue as to whether a Member State can deny both the status of being a child and the corresponding protection ...