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Webinar - Belgium: Changes to Immigration Policy in Flanders and to Family Reunification Rules

02/01/2026

Fragomen will host a webinar on recent changes to Belgium’s immigration policies. The session will cover two main areas: first, new rules in the Flanders Region concerning economic migration, including labour migration pathways, contractual liability, and labour market testing; and second, nationwide modifications affecting family reunification, such as stricter financial criteria for visa applications. The webinar will also highlight practical implications for businesses employing foreign nationals.

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Flanders
illegal employment
labour market test
low-skilled workers
financial requirement
application for family reunification

EMN Germany Conference: Family Reunification – between Human Rights and Migration Management

11/09/2025

The event will bring together experts from Germany and across Europe to discuss recent developments in family reunification. Debates will address the tension between safeguarding fundamental rights and meeting the requirements of migration management. Participants will explore how these priorities can be reconciled in practice through national and European approaches.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification
fundamental right
migration management

EMN Netherlands Conference: Family Reunification in Europe and the Netherlands

14/03/2024

This conference organised by EMN Netherlands, in cooperation with EMN Belgium, will focus on family reunification of beneficiaries of international protection in EMN Member and Observer Countries. The influence of European case law in this field will also be examined in more detail. 

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification right
beneficiary of international protection

Book presentation: Family reunification under pressure

03/01/2024

Researcher and author Pascal Debruyne will present his book which contains stories of parents and minors who struggle through the family reunification procedure and stories of care providers who try their best to support these families. Panel discussions will also take place with experts in this field.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event

ERA Conference 2018: European Immigration Law

13/03/2018

This conference aims to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
legal migration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Hasselt)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Leuven)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Gent)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

IE NCP Conference on ‘Migrant family reunification - policy and practice’ (Ireland)

30/10/2017

This full day conference will provide an opportunity to exchange information on family reunification schemes, in Ireland and abroad. Drawing on the findings of a recently published European Migration Network study the family reunification policy frameworks operational elsewhere in the EU will be discussed and compared.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification right

Deadline for responding to European Commission public consultation on legal migration by non-EU citizens

19/06/2017

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to collect evidence, experiences, data and opinions to support the evaluation of the existing EU legal framework for the legal entry and stay of nationals of non-EU countries to the EU Member States. The deadline is 18 September 2017. 

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Student Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
public consultation

NL EMN NCP Conference on family reunification in the Netherlands and Europe (The Hague)

06/04/2017

The Conference of the Dutch Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in the Hague on 18 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in the Netherlands and Europe.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Netherlands

EMN SE NCP Conference on family reunification in Sweden and Europe – state of play and lessons for the future (Stockholm)

20/03/2017

The Conference of the Swedish National Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Stockholm on 12 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in Sweden and in the EU.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Sweden

CEMO Event on the experience of exile through family reunification (Brussels)

Logo CEMO

20/07/2016

CEMO organises a study morning in Brussels on the topic of the experience of exile through family reunification: myths, procedures and uprooting.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
CEMO
exile

Call for projects: Making an informed decision about marriage migration (King Baudouin Foundation)

Screenshot of webpage dedicated to call for projects Marriage Migration

08/04/2014

The King Baudouin Foundation aims to reduce vulnerability amongst newcomers settling in Belgium through marriage. Associations working on marriage migration related challenges are invited to submit possible projects before 16 April 2014.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
marriage migration

Foyer: seminar on new law on the fight against marriages and legal cohabitations of convenience

logo Foyer

28/02/2014

Foyer organises a half-day seminar on the recent law of 2 June 2013 on the fight against marriages and legal cohabitations of convenience.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
legal cohabitation
marriage of convenience

EP Seminar on Free movement of LGBT families in the EU: The Frankenstein EU Legislation

cover LGBT AP seminar

01/03/2013

The LGBT Intergroup is organising a seminar on the free movement of LGBT families, and the obstacles they face when moving around the EU.

Theme:
Migration
Family Migration

ERA seminar: Family Reunification Procedures in European Migration Law (2 days)

ERA Logo

06/03/2012

This seminar of the Academy of European Law will provide legal practitioners with an in-depth analysis of the relevant legislative measures, the most recent and important developments in jurisprudence and the impact of European human rights instruments on the issue of familiy reunification.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
ERA
Family Law

Training on Family Reunification from 9:30 to 12:30

12/01/2012

The new law from 8 July 2011 makes family reunification related provisions more complex. This half study day plans to clarify new provisions and their impact on persons whose application is pending or who are temporarily allowed to stay on the territory.

Theme:
Family Migration
Keywords:
legislation

Study Day: Partner Migration - Research and the Challenges for Policy

Logo 'Kruispunt Integratie-Migratie'

03/11/2011

The Flemish organisation 'Kruispunt M-I' invites for its study day on Partner Migration. The organisation will define major challenges for the migration policy on grounds of recent research

Theme:
Family Migration
Integration
Keywords:
family migration policy

Colloquium: Belgians - second-rate EU-citizens? The new Belgian law on family reunification

09/11/2011

The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (‘Centre’) organizes a colloquium on the problematic of so called ‘reverse discrimination’ concerning the new national law on family reunification.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy
Family Reunification Directive

Conference: Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies - 17 November 2011

Conference Family Reunification cover

10/11/2011

The King Baudouin Foundation, the European Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network are organising a Conference on Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies, on 17 November

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy

Training: New Legal Rules Familiy Reunification

Logo 'Foyer'

14/09/2011

The Legal Service of the Brussels based Integration Centre "Foyer" offers a training session on the new Law on Familiy Reunification, published in the Belgian Monitor on 12 September 2011

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy

Training: Reform of the Legal Rules on Family Reunification

15/09/2011

The French-speaking Belgian NGO 'Association for the Rights of Foreigners' (ADDE) offers a training concerning the new rules for familiy reunification

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
family migration policy

Een trainingsnamiddag over de wetshervorming van gezinshereniging

14/09/2011

Het wetsvoorstel dat in juni gestemd werd om de Wet van 15 december 1980 te vervangen, verandert ook diepgaand de huidige structuur van gezinshereniging.
Het ADDE (Association pour le Droit des Etrangers) organiseert hierover een vorming op 6 oktober 2011 in de ULB, in de Dupréel zaal.

Theme:
Gezinshereniging
Type:
Evenement
Keywords:
gezinshereniging

Conference: Family Reunification in EU Law (1 day)

06/05/2011

The European Immigration Lawyers Network (EILN) organises a bi-lingual conference (French/English) on familiy reunification in Europe
Where: Maison du Barreau, 2, rue de Harlay, 75001 Paris
When: 20 May 2011
Registration fee: € 200

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
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