Attention: we are temporarily closing our office

13 March 2020

Due to the sanitary guidelines we are closing our office untill further notice. We will continue to provide legal, integrational and legalisation consultations via e-mail and phone Our temporary office phone: + 48 792 568 561 To set up a virtual…

Decision: re-socialized migrant is not a threat to public security or safety

6 March 2020

A father of four, who was successfully re-socialized is not a threat to public security or safety eight years after the commitment of crimes. Hiss deportation would be an unjustified interference in his right to a family life. On 20…

Tagged with: deportation, deportation order, right to family life, threat to public security and safety

Voivodship Administrative Court: labor market test is not a formal defect

4 March 2020

Lack of labor market test is not a formal defect of an application for work and residence permit. In consequence, the Province Governor had the obligation to consider the case. A represented migrant stayed in Poland legally since his application…

Tagged with: formal defects, judgement, labor market test, legalization procedure

Voivodeship Administrative Court: evidence needs to be properly reviewed

10 February 2020

The Refugee Board has completely failed to take into account evidence presented by a party pertaining to his political activity and to the treatment of members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan at the hands of state authorities. That…

Tagged with: complaint, procedural guarantees, refugee status

Decision: deportation could violate children`s rights

30 January 2020

Deportation could violate children rights to the extent that threatens their psychophysical development. Children were in Poland for over five years. They fully integrated into the Polish society planning their future in Poland, they speak Polish fluently and have almost…

Tagged with: children rights, decision, deportation, humanitarian stay

Voivodship Administrative Court: stay of the execution of the asylum decision

22 January 2020

EU law guarantees an asylum seeker a right to stay for the duration a courts’ proceedings. The ruling of 17 July 2019, no. IV SA/Wa 1457/19, of Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw was based on Article 46 (5) of the…

Tagged with: asylum seeker, deportation, EU law

The Dutch Court temporarily halted Dublin transfer to Poland

15 January 2020

The Dutch Court temporarily halted Dublin transfer of an asylum seeker from Netherland to Poland. The transfer was supposed to be carried out in accordance with Dublin III Regulation. According to this regulation, as a general rule, a member state…

Tagged with: Dublin III Regulation, non-refoulement

ECtHR communicates a case against Poland: detention of a victim of violence

15 January 2020

We’ve been fighting for years with unlawful migration detention. We represent migrants before domestic courts deciding on their detention, we represent them in compensation proceedings, we also fight for their rights before the European Court of Human Rights. The Court…

Tagged with: detention, ECtHR, victims of violence

Gross inactivity of the Mazowieckie Province Governor – judgement of the Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw

30 October 2019

Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw stated that the Mazowieckie Province Governor fell into gross inactivity. In consequence, the Court adjudicated a compensation for our client for the difficulties caused by this inactivity. Our client applied for subsequent temporary residence permit…

Victims of violence cannot be placed in immigration detention facility

23 September 2019

The Regional Court in Olsztyn reminded that victims of violence cannot be placed in detention centers for foreigners. Our client – a victim of violence – was awarded compensation for wrongful detention. The Regional Court in Olsztyn granted compensation for…

Tagged with: compensation, detention, ruling, victims of violence