| Title | M.A. v. Denmark |
| Publisher | Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights |
| Publication Date | 9 July 2021 |
| Country | Denmark | Syrian Arab Republic |
| Topics | Family reunification |
| Related Document(s) | Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of M.A. v. Denmark (Application no. 6697/18) before the European Court of Human Rights |
| Cite as | M.A. v. Denmark, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 9 July 2021, available at: https://www.refworld.org/cases,ECHR,60ec0ae24.html [accessed 17 May 2023] |
| Comments | 194. Having regard to all the above considerations, the Court is not satisfied, notwithstanding their margin of appreciation, that the authorities of the respondent State, when subjecting the applicant to a three-year waiting period before he could apply for family reunification with his wife, struck a fair balance between, on the one hand, the applicant’s interest in being reunited with his wife in Denmark and, on the other, the interest of the community as a whole to control immigration with a view to protect the economic well-being of the country, to ensure the effective integration of those granted protection and to preserve social cohesion (see paragraph 165 above). 195. It follows that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention. |
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