The Netherlands may stop providing accommodation to third country nationals who were living in Ukraine before the Russian invasion, the European Court of Justice’s advocate general said on Tuesday.

Some 2,500 third-party nationals, often students, workers or people married to Ukrainians, came to the Netherlands and a mishmash of conflicting legal decisions had led to confusion about what rights they have to stay.

The foreign students and workers who were in Ukraine before the invasion had been ordered to go home, but many had challenged the Dutch…