Published on 22 November 2021

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 21196/21 Vasilije ŠĆEPANOVIĆ against Bosnia and Herzegovina lodged on 13 April 2021 communicated on 4 November 2021

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant, a Montenegrin citizen, moved to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013. In 2015 he married a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and had a child with her. In 2019 the relevant authorities issued an order withdrawing his residence permit, ordering his expulsion and imposing a three-year ban on his re-entering Bosnia and Herzegovina on the ground that he was a threat to the “security, public order or international relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The applicant complains that his expulsion was arbitrary and thus contrary to Article 8 of the Convention. In particular, he claims that the decision against him was in vague, general terms which lacked particularity such as to enable him to conduct any meaningful challenge to the allegations against him.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a breach of the applicant’s right to respect for his family life, contrary to Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Al-Nashif v. Bulgaria , no. 50963/99, 20 June 2002; Lupsa v. Romania , no. 10337/04, ECHR 2006 ‑ VII; I.R. and G.T. v. the United Kingdom (dec.), nos. 14876/12 and 63339/12, 28 January 2014; and Saeed v. Denmark (dec.), no. 53/12, 24 June 2014)?