This master thesis deals with the issues of family reunification procedure which refugees in a new country are faced with. Finding your family again and being reunited is one of the most topical issues in relation to refugees. The number of asylum applicants strongly increased from 2015 to 2017. Consequently, there also increased the number of applications for family reunification which allows a refugee the realization of his fundamental human right as the right to family life. Promotion of activities concerning family reunification is supported by a number of international, regional and national legal sources, as well as UNHCR. The latter has an important role since it seeks to promote mechanisms for family reunification that are rapid and effective and warns about the problems, which are occurring in both, legislation and in practice of the member states. Due to the so-called refugee crisis, there is an increase of the protection of public security and public order of the member states, which are defended in administrative and judicial procedures, and are consequently tightening the conditions for the reunification. Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification devoted a special attention to refugees and set out more favourable conditions to exercise their right. Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights have pointed out the issues through a series of cases, where they over and over again stress the importance of human rights, that belong to a refugee in the country of flight and, despite the national interests of the states, through case law create more favourable conditions for family reunification.
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