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EASO, Practical Guide on Age Assessment (2nd edition), 2018

Sep 5, 2022

The EASO Practical Guide on Age Assessment acknowledges, inter alia, that the benefit of the doubt in age determination procedures is a key principle and safeguard since none of the currently available methods of age assessment can determine a specific age with...

Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast)

Sep 5, 2022

The recast “Asylum Procedures Directive” is a recast of a previous Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005), with implementation deadline of 20 July 2015. The Directive sets up common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection...

Court of Szeged, Decision No. 10.K.27.051/2018/5., 7 February 2018

Sep 5, 2022

The case concerns two siblings, an afghan national with a legally accompanied minor who submitted asylum applications on October 24th 2017. The asylum authority suspended their procedure based on the information they gathered from the EURODAC system and the Dublin...

M.M. v. Principal Immigration Officer, Immigration Appeals Board of Malta,13 April 2022

Jun 14, 2022

The appellant is a Bangladeshi national who was rescued and disembarked in Malta in September 2019. He declared to be a minor born on 01 January 2003 upon arrival and was directly detained. The appellant was detained on health grounds until June 2020 where he was...

R.M v. Principal Immigration Officer, Immigration Appeals Board of Malta, 24 March 2022

Jun 14, 2022

The appellant is a Bangladeshi national who was rescued and disembarked in Malta in December 2021. He was directly detained upon arrival and later declared that he is a minor during the lodging of his asylum application and was referred for the age assessment...