Our services
Our areas of expertise
Altea is a firm of specialists who have experience and expertise in their chosen fields and who strive to be accessible.
We have two teams working alongside each other, each with their own skill set. Their usual fields of activity are, but not exclusively :
Immigration
Immigration law
Certificates of non-impediment to marriage
Regularisation for medical reasons or on humanitarian grounds
International family law
Marriage and legal cohabitation (declaration, recognition, refusal, annulment)
Monitoring your family mediation
Cessation of legal cohabitation
Recognition in Belgium of a common law relationship registered abroad
Nationality
Belgian nationality (naturalisation or declaration)
Recovering Belgian Citizenship
Brexit, Belgian citizenship, lawful residence, primary residence, and European Union law
Public law
Administrative law
General administrative law
Administrative disputes
Liability of public entities
Public service law
Education law
Administrative health care law
Pharmaceutical law
Hospital law
Environmental law
Urban planning law
Expropriation law
Public tender law
Public economic law
Institutional law, including local authorities
Administrative law for the media
Constitutional law
Constitutional law, human rights, public freedoms
Constitutional disputes
Institutional law
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The S-card and the M-card are valid residences to apply for Belgian nationality
(Published on 12/02/2021)The Code of Belgian Nationality allows the application for nationality provided that one has had a "legal residence" for a certain period of time, depending on the case. For a child, it is sometimes the parents who must be able to prove a legal residence.
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Brexit: Last call for British nationals and their family members
(Published on 08/01/2021)A Belgian law passed on 16 December 2020 partially implementing the withdrawal agreement between the UK and the European Union provides British nationals and their family members with the opportunity to formalise any residence permits which were not requested or obtained before the end of the transition period i.e. prior to 31 December 2020.
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Family reunions in Belgium and Coronavirus: travel permits for couples
(Published on 16/12/2020)Due to Covid-19, restrictions prohibiting non-essential travel have been implemented (Article 21 of Ministerial Order of 28/10/2020 introducing emergency measures to limit the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus).
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Legal proceedings involving foreigners too complex in Belgium
(Published on 25/03/2020)The European Court of Human Rights once again condemned Belgium on 18 February 2020 (Makdoudi v. Belgium, Application No. 12848/15) in matters of foreigners’ rights.
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Automatic enrolment in the population registers in Belgium
(Published on 18/12/2020)Have you retained a pied-à-terre in Belgium? Have you permanently returned from abroad? Your municipality could take the lead by enrolling you automatically in its registers. This sometimes happens on the initiative of a complainant who might have an interest in your enrolment at another address, for example, in the case of a family dispute.
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