A bureaucratic mistake rubbished a court decision to deny a migrant’s asylum application it emerged on Friday, after the Administrative Court for International Protection upheld the individual’s appeal.

The mistake that allowed the migrant’s appeal against the negative decision to go through was that the officer at the asylum service failed to sign the migrant’s rejection letter.

After the rejection of his application by the asylum service, the applicant filed an appeal against the Republic before the Administrative Court of International Protection.

One of the grounds raised by the applicant was the alleged lack of competence of the Asylum Service officer to take the decision to reject his application since the name and signature of the Asylum Service officer did not appear on the rejection letter he received.

Although the representative of the Attorney General submitted two documents from the Asylum Service certifying both the person who signed the decision and the fact that the person was appointed to carry out tasks in connection with the adoption of decisions on applications for international protection, the court of first instance accepted the applicant’s appeal.

The attorney-general then appealed this decision, as the evidence provided had not been sufficient, annulling the court’s decision.