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SIP proposes to improve the operating of migration and asylum authorities during COVID-19

The Association for Legal Intervention (SIP) submitted, under the procedure of complaints and motions, a proposal that the Head of the Office for Foreigners and the Mazovian Voivode should send a text message to migrant…
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Ruling: gross failure to act is not justified by the overburden of the administrative authority

In the situation of a significant exceeding of the deadline to issue a decision, the significant increase of the number of cases in the administrative authority cannot justify it. It is a gross failure to act. In two…
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Decision: Identification with Polish culture prevents from deportation

Issuing a return decision for a family could have significant impact on the development of children who are fully integrated and identify with Polish society and its culture. Protecting children’s rights, as well as thei…
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Decision: Child’s best interest when a parent is suspected of being a threat to public security

Border Guard, in the procedure for granting residence permit for humanitarian reasons, must examine whether the obligation to return would not violate the right to family life and rights of the child, and whether the mig…
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Decision: re-socialized migrant is not a threat to public security or safety

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. His deportation would be an unjustified interference in his right to a family…
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Voivodeship Administrative Court: evidence needs to be properly reviewed

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…