{"id":11818,"date":"2021-08-30T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:31:10","slug":"the-greek-asylum-in-the-first-half-of-2021-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/the-greek-asylum-in-the-first-half-of-2021-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greek asylum in the first half of 2021: The asylum procedure in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Greek asylum in the first half of 2021: The asylum procedure in numbers<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This note summarises and analyses key statistics<\/a> on the functioning of the Greek asylum procedure during the first half of 2021, based on figures provided by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum in response to parliamentary questions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • The first instance recognition rate stood at 63%, marking a minor increase on 2020 (60%). The second instance recognition rate remains particularly low (8.2%), albeit slightly higher compared to 2020 (5.2%).<\/li>\n \t
  • 30% of pending asylum applications concern nationals of Afghanistan. Many will be subject to an admissibility procedure based on the Joint Ministerial Decision designating Turkey as a \u201csafe third country\u201d.<\/li>\n \t
  • Out of a total of 32,325 first instance decisions, only 3,931 were issued in the fast-track border procedure on the islands.<\/li>\n \t
  • Out of 915 inadmissibility decisions issued in the fast-track border procedure, 453 asylum claims were dismissed as inadmissible based on the \u201csafe third country\u201d concept, of which 428 concerning Syrian nationals. Only 17 Syrians received refugee status in the fast-track border procedure.<\/li>\n \t
  • A total of 1,121 appeals have been rejected due to failure on the part of the appellant to appear in person or to submit a residence certificate before the Appeals Committees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Registration of asylum applications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

    Out of a total of 8,859 pre-registrations of asylum applications in the first half of the year, 3,377 were carried out by the Hellenic Police and 2,540 by the Reception and Identification Service (RIS), while the Asylum Service pre-registered 2,942 applications through its Skype service.<\/p>

    The number of pending asylum applications at first instance stood at 46,247 at the end of June 2021. Of those, 71% have been pending for more than a year from the date of full registration (\u201clodging\u201d). Furthermore, 13,864 applications (30% of the total) concern Afghan nationals and many will be processed pursuant to the recent Joint Ministerial Decision (JMD) designating Turkey as a \u201csafe third country\u201d. A nationality breakdown of pending applications is available below:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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