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An Iraqi family relocated to Lithuania under the EU's refugee relocation program have decided not to appeal a court ruling refusing to grant them refugee status.
Iraqi family not to appeal ruling denying them refugee status in Lithuania
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Vilnius Regional Administrative Court on April 5 upheld the Migration Department's decision to grant the family temporary legal protection instead of refugee status they had sought.

"The family decided not to appeal," Eglė Samuchovaitė, a lawyer who represented the Iraqis, told BNS.

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