Women's Asylum News: Issue No. 107, December 2011 - January 2012
December 2011 | Publisher: Asylum Aid | Document type: Country Reports |
R (on the application of Sivapalan and another) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
Application for judicial review. 1 December 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Abduction - Appeal / Right to appeal - Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Derivative status - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to family life - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
P. S.-S., Sri Lanka
Art. 3, 17, para. 1 and 17a Asylum Law, art. 14a para. 4 and 6 Law on Foreign Nationals: In the case of a married couple, the question of the eligibility for refugee status of one spouse cannot be examined independently of that question concerning the other spouse. In the event of a subsequent marriage in Switzerland of two foreigners who had made separate requests for asylum, the determination of whether refugee status is to be granted to one of the spouses may not be made independently of the determination concerning refugee status of the other spouse. If the FOR has suspended consideration of one of the spouse's request for asylum for an unspecified period of time, in particular so as to conform to the directive given by the Federal Department of Justice and Police in respect of older procedures concerning Sri Lankan nationals, when the other spouse has appealed a decision refusing asylum to the Commission, then the decision challenged shall be quashed and the case remanded back to the FOR, or in other words, set back into the same procedural status as the suspended case of the spouse. 1 February 1999 | Judicial Body: Switzerland: Commission suisse de recours en matière d'asile | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Derivative status | Countries: Sri Lanka - Switzerland |