In a landmark judgment, the Federal Administrative Court acknowledged
the existence of a new specific circumstance that goes against the granting
of family asylum. In addition, it considered that the result of the
assessment of evidence made in the original, already concluded, asylum
procedure cannot be simply transposed to the subsequent family asylum
procedure. The right to be heard must be granted again and the results
assessed separately.
The judgment deals with the question of when asylum applications must be referred to the extended procedure due to their complexity instead of being decided under the accelerated procedure.
The FAC suspended the transfer of a Syrian refugee, who allegedly suffered ill-treatment by Croatian authorities, to Croatia under the Dublin III Regulation.
