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Polygamy Splits a Family Reunion as European Court Sides with the Netherlands

Europe’s human rights court backed the Netherlands’ refusal to admit five children from a Yemeni refugee’s polygamous marriages, giving national authorities broad discretion over family reunification.

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Center

A man married to several women in his home country is not eligible for family reunification to bring his children born of these polygamous unions to Europe, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Tuesday.

·Warsaw, Poland
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Curtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului a respins cererea unui yemenit stabilit în īrile de Jos, care voia să i aducă în Europa cinci copii proveniți din alte două căsătorii.

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A man married to several women in his country of origin cannot request family reunification to bring to Europe the children born of these polygamous unions, evaluated on Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Four young people die after car crash from cliff in California; families make cowgirls for funerals Understand: Four children were poisoned and killed by their mother and grandmother in the United States; one of them discovered …

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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A judgment of the European Court of Rights has established that there is no obligation for a State to grant residence permits to children born of a polygamous father. In the explanatory statement it is said that states have a wide margin of discretion in deciding whether to allow family reunification between fathers and children born of marriages [...] The article If the father is polygamous not all minor children are entitled to a residence per…

·Rome, Italy
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The European Court of Human Rights has given justice to the Netherlands, which has refused family reunification for five children born to two of the wives of a Yemeni refugee in the Netherlands, according to France Presse. A man married to several women in his country of origin cannot benefit from family reunification to bring himself to Europe...

·Romania
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Courthouse News Service broke the news in Pasadena, United States on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
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