Council of State: Minister Must Better Substantiate Why Not All Yemenis Are Granted Asylum

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A young man from Yemen applied for asylum in the Netherlands last year, but the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) rejected his request. The minister's subsequent explanation was correct...

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The Court now speaks of a lack of investigation into the intensity of the armed confrontations, the level of organization of the armed forces involved and the duration of the conflict.

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The Ministry of Asylum and Migration must go back to the drawing board. This has been ruled by the Council of State in a case concerning asylum policy for people from Yemen. According to the highest administrative court in the Netherlands, the decision to no longer automatically grant asylum to Yemenis is insufficiently reasoned. The ruling could have major consequences for other asylum applications from the war-torn country.

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Is Yemen now safe enough to start assessing asylum applications from that country more strictly again?

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Outgoing Minister David van Weel (Asylum, VVD) must better substantiate why not all refugees from Yemen are granted asylum, the Council of State has ruled. Currently, the policy is that Yemenis are only allowed to stay if they are in personal danger. The minister believes there is no exceptionally unsafe situation in which all asylum seekers should be allowed to stay. However, the highest administrative court finds that he has not adequately sub…