Bundesverwaltungsgericht

Important decisions of the Federal Administrative Court concerning the law of asylum related to European Community Law are presented on the website in English translation.

Translator's Note: The Federal Administrative Court, or Bundesverwaltungsgericht, is the Federal Republic of Germany's supreme administrative court. This unofficial translation is provided for the reader's convenience and has not been officially authorized by the Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Page numbers in citations of international texts have been retained from the original and may not match the pagination in the parallel English versions.

Translated versions:

• BVerwG 10 C 21.08 released on 5 May 2009
  Facilitated standard of proof; reversal of burden of proof; refugee protection for families; recognition of refugee status; refugee status; internal protection; internal flight alternative; nationality; political conviction; prognosis; race; prevention of terrorism; act of persecution; reason for persecution; prognosis of persecution; previous persecution.

• BVerwG 10 C 51.07 released on 5 March 2009
  Asylum; refugee status; Qualification Directive; act of persecution; reason for persecution; severe violation of human rights; freedom of religion; religious subsistence level; religious activity in public; physical freedom; alternative refuge in cases of emigration; conditions created by individual after leaving country of origin.

• BVerwG 10 C 50.07 released on 26 February 2009
  Deprivation of citizenship; administrative deprivation of citizenship; deprivation of citizenship relevant to asylum; refusal of entry; statelessness; de facto statelessness; de jure statelessness; habitual residence; lawful residence; internal protection; accessibility of alternative refuge.

• BVerwG 10 C 52.07 released on 19 January 2009
  Recognition of refugee status; act of persecution; targeted act; necessary medi-cal treatment; post-traumatic stress disorder; denial of registration; violation of human rights; previous persecution; internal flight alternative; internal protec-tion; time of emigration; facilitated standard of proof; standard of proof.

• BVerwG 10 C 27.07 released on 18 December 2008
  Exception; exceptional case; refugee status; follow-up application; follow-up proceedings; post-flight reason; post-flight circumstances; regular case; reason for normal exclusion; post-flight circumstance created by party himself; subjec-tive post-flight reason; recognition of refugee status.

• BVerwG 10 C 48.07 released on 14 October 2008
  Asylum; recognition of refugee status; prohibition on refoulement; exclusion; terrorism; support; DHKP/C; serious non-political crime; purposes and principles of the United Nations; preliminary ruling; ineligibility for asylum; danger of reof-fence; proportionality; protection from deportation; priority of application.

• BVerwG 10 C 43.07 released on 24 June 2008
  Protection from deportation because of internal armed conflict (Iraq); indiscrimi-nate violence; serious and individual threat; substantial individual danger; subsidiary protection; international humanitarian law; matter at issue in protection against deportation under European and German law.

• BVerwG 10 C 33.07 released on 07 February 2008
  Withdrawal of recognition of refugee status (Iraq); preliminary ruling; overreaching implementation; existing recognition; discretion; immediacy; year's grace period for withdrawal; fear of persecution; new, different persecution; actor of protection; subsidiary protection; protection from deportation; prior persecution; standard for prognosis; easier standard of proof.