18th November 2016 | News
The Home Office made public its new guidelines which introduce eligibility criteria for refugee children from Calais who apply for relocation under the Dubs Amendment. The new guidelines limit the scope of the amendment. To be eligible, it must be the case that...
18th November 2016 | News
On 28 October 2016, the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security issued a new instruction to the immigration authorities allowing stateless children born in Norway to acquire Norwegian citizenship. Previously, stateless children born in Norway “without lawful...
18th November 2016 | News
In their latest report on the Brest-Terespol border crossing between Poland and Belarus the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights found that the rights of people intending to apply for international protection have been violated by the Polish Border Guards. The report...
18th November 2016 | News
ECRE has published its Comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing a common procedure for international protection in the EU. The proposal aims to transform the Asylum Procedures Directive into a Regulation. This means that rules laid down in the...
18th November 2016 | News
The French Council of State delivered a ruling at the beginning of the month on allowing the Prefecture of Guiana to temporarily suspend the registration of asylum applications. Following the Prefecture’s decision earlier in the summer, access to the asylum procedure...
18th November 2016 | News
In October 2016, fifteen months after the deadline for transposition of the recast Asylum Procedures Directive and recast Reception Conditions Directive, Cyprus passed the necessary legislation amending two national laws, the Refugee Law and the Legal Aid Law for this...
16th November 2016 | News
ECRE together with ICMC, CCME, IRC, Red Cross and Caritas have published Joint Comments to the European Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing a Union Resettlement Framework and amending Regulation (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council...