On May 21, 2025, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania annulled the decision of the Migration Department to deny asylum to a foreign national who was a minor at the time
of her application but reached adulthood during the asylum procedure. The Migration Department had unjustifiably assessed her asylum claim separately from those of her family
members, reasoning that she had become an adult.
However, both the court of first instance and the Supreme Administrative Court supported
our arguments and concluded that the Migration Department had wrongly evaluated our client’s application as that of an adult, separately from her family. The courts clarified that such an applicant’s claim must be assessed together with those of her family members – meaning that the grounds raised in the family’s asylum requests should have been
considered collectively.
In this case, the client was represented by Vis Legis attorneys Laurynas Biekša and Rita Balsevičė.