Immigration and immigration authorities say they can’t help boy facing deportation

Dutch broadcaster NOS said on Friday that neither the asylum department nor the IND immigration office could prevent the deportation of an 11-year-old boy born in the Netherlands to Armenia.

Mikael, who is about to start secondary school in Amsterdam, has made a last-ditch application for residency under a rule put in place when an amnesty for entrenched child refugees was scrapped. down In 2019.

He earned his case In 2021, the Ministry of Justice still insisted on its deportation plan, and now the Council of State has ruled that the Ministry FavorTwo and a half years have passed since the case was first heard.

The Netherlands’ highest administrative court said on Wednesday that Mikael and his mother could be deported, even though the boy had never been to Armenia.

In particular, the Council of State said he and his mother had been “out of reach of the authorities” for more than three months, meaning they did not fall under the exceptions to the new rules – something the family denied.

Regulations introduced in 2019 removed the right to appeal to the Minister and state Only the head of the Indian Defence Forces Command has the discretion and can allow him to stay.

Meanwhile, the immigration office told NOS that it can only take action if a child makes a first application for residency, which is not the case in Mikael’s case.

despite this, Petition calling on Minister of Asylum Marjolein Faber Allowed the Boy to Stay Now The signatures have exceeded 50,000.

Mikael and his mother live in a refugee camp center exist southeast She has lived in the area since 2010. “The IND can as well as Send me to Ghana,” Mikael told Parol in June“I know as much about that country as I do about Armenia.”