Publication date: 27 March 2013
This paper maps the marital choices of persons with a migratory background in Belgium, with a focus on populations of Moroccan and Turkish origin.
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Main theme: Migration, Family reunification
Keywords: first generation, marital choice, second generation
Publication date: 12 March 2013
This study, coordinated by the Immigrant Council of Ireland and supported by the European Integration Fund, answers the question to what extent certain family reunification policies hinder or promote reunification with TCN family members and also their integration
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Main theme: Family reunification, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: family reunification right, income requirement, obstacle to integration
Publication date: 07 March 2013
22 Member States provide information on whether or not and under what conditions they grant a right to family reunification to unmarried partners whose relationship or partnership is not considered as equivalent to marriage.
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Publication date: 08 February 2013
The Commission published in May 2012 a summary of the responses received on its public consultation on family reunification. Background information, state of play and case law regarding this directive can be found here.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: EU directive, family migration policy
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform summarises the main developments in 2011 in legal migration and mobility. Topics addressed include statistics, promoting legal migration channels, economic, family Reunification and integration.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Integration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: legal migration, mobility
Publication date: 02 January 2013
On the basis of a field study, The King Baudouin Foundation examined in more detail the marriage migration from Emirdag to Brussels with a view to identify profiles, aspirations and motivations of the migrants involved.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: marriage migration, Emirdag
Publication date: 29 June 2012
This EMN Inform presents the main outcomes of the above-titled EMN Focussed Study.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, Green paper on Family Reunification
Publication date: 27 June 2012
Based on the main findings of national contributions from 24 EMN NCP, the report highlights similarities and differences in means of prevention, detection and action, as well as statistics related to marriages of convenience and false declarations of parenthood.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, Green paper on Family Reunification, grey marriage, white marriage
Publication date: 25 April 2012
In this national contribution to the EMN focussed study, the Belgian Contact Point clarifies the scope of the issue and presents national means of prevention, detection and actions against such misuses, as well as statistics in this field.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: False declaration of parenthood, marriage of convenience
Publication date: 07 March 2012
UNHCR answers questions raised by the European Commission on the Right to Family Reunification of Third Country Nationals. It provides practical recommendations on different issues of concern related to family reunification of beneficiaries of international protection.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, refugee
Publication date: 02 February 2012
This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directoratie of Immigration (UDI) and managed by Econ Pöyry. The study provides an overview of rules and practices in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Publication date: 28 November 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation, the European Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network (ULB) have organised a Conference on Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies, on last 17 November
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Publication date: 03 October 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation has organized between April 2010 to March 2011 different meetings gathering actors implicated by their personal or their professional background in the field of family reunification policies
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: family migration policy
Publication date: 16 September 2011
The Think-Tank Itinera Institute analyses in its publication the new legal rules on family reunification in Belgium
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, Immigrant integration, labour market
Publication date: 05 September 2011
In 2009, EU Member States issued about 2.3 million new residence permits to third country nationals, i.e. to non-EU citizens, a number that represents a decline of about
0.2 million compared with 2008.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Study § Training, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Eurostat, residence permit
Publication date: 17 August 2011
The United Kingdom is seeing a growth in the use of ‘marriages of convenience’ as a way of obtaining the right to stay in the UK
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Main theme: Family reunification, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: marriage of convenience
Publication date: 23 June 2011
This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)
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Publication date: 25 May 2011
Ad hoc query, requested on April 18, 2011 by the Hungarian NCP concerning marriages of convenience in the European Union. 18 responses
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Main theme: Family reunification, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: marriage of convenience
Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published its fourth annual report 'Migration'. The Centre pleads for the third year in a row for a sustainable migration policy in Belgium.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, Regularization
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, migration policy
Publication date: 11 April 2011
Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: council directive, family migration policy
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This Publication of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) aims at providing an analysis of the European legal framework, from offering better regulation of family reunification by Member States to protective jurisprudence, as well as Belgian law (the law of 15.12.1980) and recent developments.
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Publication date: 28 March 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation presents figures and trends on the influx of migrant spouses in Belgium and information about socio-economic profile of those concerned (2011)
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Publication date: 12 January 2011
This EMN Synthesis Report aims to summarise and compare, within a European perspective, the findings from nine National Contact Points (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Sweden, Netherlands and the United Kingdom) of the European Migration Network (EMN), on family reunification.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum outcomes, circulaire, family migration policy
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The Belgian Constitutional Court has clarified how the means of subsistence requirement applies in family reunification applications. The ruling establishes that the means of subsistence of both the Belgian sponsor and their partner must be taken into account when assessing compliance with this requirement. Previously, some applications were refused because only the sponsor’s means were considered. The decision aims to ensure compliance with principles of equality, non-discrimination, and respect for family life.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: Constitutional Court, application for family reunification, income requirement, partner's income
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The Belgian Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended legislative measures introduced in 2025 that tightened rules on material reception conditions for asylum seekers and family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. The suspensions concern two separate laws, and the Court has referred several preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to clarify their compatibility with EU law.