Mr Ruiz Zambrano and his wife, both Columbian nationals, applied for asylum in Belgium due to the civil war in Columbia. The Belgian authorities refused to grant them refugee status and ordered them to leave Belgium. The couple continued to reside in Belgium while waiting for their applications to have their residence situation regularised. Mr Ruiz Zambrano’s wife gave birth … Read More
Case C-34/09 – Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v Office National de l’Emploi
| Respondent/Defendant: | Office National de l’Emploi |
| Court/s: | ECJ |
| Citation/s: | Case C-34/09 |
| Judgment Date/s: | 08 Mar 2011 |
| Judge: | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| Category: | Citizenship, EU Treaty Rights |
| Keywords: | Citizenship, EU Treaty Rights, Free Movement, Freedom of Movement (Right to), Third-Country National |
| Country of Origin: | Columbia |
| URL: | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?isOldUri=true&uri=CELEX:62009CJ0034 |
| Geographic Focus: | Europe |
| Principles: | Article 20 TFEU precludes a Member State from refusing a third country national upon whom his minor children, who are European Union citizens, are dependent, a right of residence in the Member State of residence and nationality of those children, and from refusing to grant a work permit to that third country national, in so far as such decisions deprive those children of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights attaching to the status of European Union citizen. |