ECtHR (GC), decision on Admissibility of 5 May 2020, M.N. and Others v. Belgium, Appl. no. 3599/18

Humanitarian visa: Does the suspended step of the stork become a hunting permit ?

Résumé

The European Court of Human Rights declared the case M.N. and others v. Belgium inadmissible by excluding that Belgium exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction over a family of Syrians requesting humanitarian visas from the Belgian embassy in Beirut. With its assessment as to jurisdiction, the Court insists upon keeping the status quo of access to asylum procedures.