AG Richard de la Tour’s Opinion proposes time limit for submitting family reunification claim, in context of ‘minor’ granted international protection

Advocate General (AG) Richard de la Tour has handed down his Opinion in a preliminary reference regarding the processing of an application for family reunification, submitted on the basis of Article 10(3)(a) of Directive 2003/86/EC by the parents of a young third-country national, who, having arrived on the territory of a Member State as an unaccompanied minor, reached the age of majority during the examination of his international protection application: Kreis Bergstraße (C-571/24).

In the A and S (C‑550/16) judgment, the Court of Justice clarified the conditions under which unaccompanied minors who have attained the age of majority during that procedure may claim entitlement to the right to family reunification under the more fa