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.

Het evenement brengt deskundigen uit Duitsland en heel Europa samen om de recente ontwikkelingen op het gebied van gezinshereniging te bespreken. De debatten zullen gaan over de spanning tussen het waarborgen van grondrechten en het voldoen aan de eisen van migratiebeheer. De deelnemers zullen onderzoeken hoe deze prioriteiten in de praktijk kunnen worden verzoend door middel van nationale en Europese benaderingen.

Eurostat published data on first residence permits, highlighting that 3.741.015 first residence permits were issued in the EU to non-EU citizens in 2023, a 4.7% increase compared with 2022. Belgium issued 74.366 first residence permits to non-EU nationals in 2023, an 8,5% increase compared with 2022.

In a press release from 26 July 2024, Myria, the Federal Migration Centre, calls on the authorities, given the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, to make greater efforts in terms of information provision and administrative and procedural flexibility, both in terms of access to evacuation and the submission and processing of visa applications.