Eu Law: Court and Visas

eu law: The European Court of Justice ruled that allowing people to choose where to get international protection would undermine the EU system establishing which country should handle asylum applications, according to Brandon Sun. It said that EU law only lays out the procedures and conditions for issuing visas to transit through or stay on the territory of a member state for up to 90 days. The decision announced Tuesday came after a Belgian court in October ordered the government to give humanitarian visas to a family in war-torn Syria. But the Luxembourg-based court said member state courts remain free to rule on visas under national law. The government fears that granting visas would open the floodgates to more applications and believes that it should be responsible for such decisions and not the courts. Friends in Belgium had offered to lodge and feed the family, who lived in the besieged city of Aleppo and believed still to be in Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.