21/10/2022 (Agence Europe) – In a judgment concerning Sweden published on Thursday 20 October, the European Court of Human Rights accepts that due to considerable tension caused by an influx of asylum seekers, a State may temporarily suspend the family reunification procedure for certain foreigners in order to ensure immigration control and to protect the “economic well-being of the country”. In a case concerning three Syrian applicants, it found no violation of the right to respect for private and family life and the right to non-discrimination. One of the applicants, born in 2000, was a refugee in Sweden when in 2017 his mother and brother applied for residence permits which were denied due to restrictions put in place between 2016 and 2019 to limit the granting of residence permits for family reunification. (VL)