Statistics
Table 1: Applications and granting of protection status at first and second instance: 2015 (January-August)
Pending
Applicants
applications
in 2015
31 Aug 2015
Total
8,519
Not available
Old Procedure
0
23,3242
New Procedure
Not available4
8,519
Refugee
status
3,703
717
2,986
Subsidiary Humanitarian
protection
protection
Rejection1
Refugee
rate
Subs. Prot. Hum. Prot. Rejection
rate
rate
rate
479
107
372
135
1353
0
7,892
1,548
6,344
30.3%
28.5%
30.7%
3.9%
4.2%
3.8%
1.1%
5.4%
0%
64.6%
61.7%
65.3%
13
290
12
3
5
4
32
0
1
3
20
3
0
0
7
26
3
23
10
5
0
1
15
0
0
0
113
742
2,529
942
646
408
92
15
116
366
41
33
0
95%
19%
2.5%
2.9%
0.9%
11.3%
62%
90.8%
38.8%
0.2%
25.6%
64.3%
-
0.5%
22.6%
0.5%
0.3%
0.7%
0.8%
9.4%
0%
0.5%
0.8%
24.3%
3%
-
0%
0.5%
1%
0.3%
3.4%
2.1%
1.4%
0%
0.5%
3.9%
0%
0%
-
4.5%
57.8%
96%
96.5%
95%
85.8%
27.2%
9.2%
60.2%
95.1%
50.1%
32.7%
-
Breakdown by countries of origin of the total numbers
Syria
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Albania
Nigeria
Iraq
Stateless
Iran
Georgia
Somalia
Eritrea
Kosovo
2,511
1,352
1,115
490
379
257
246
179
176
167
94
64
0
2,380
243
67
28
6
54
211
149
75
1
21
65
0
Source: Statistics provided to GCR by the Asylum Service, the Appeals Authority and the Hellenic Police Headquarters - Aliens Division, September 2015.
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Rejection should include both in-merit and admissibility negative decisions (including Dublin decisions).
Applications pending at second instance – Old Procedure as per 31 August 2015. There are no pending applications at first instance.
The number refers to 10 residence permits on humanitarian grounds, granted by the General Secretary of Public Order, on applications submitted before 7 June 2013
and still pending when PD 167/2014 was published, added to 125 cases of the Appeals Committees of PD 114/2010, where it was decided to grant the relevant status
before PD 167/2014 was into force. Except for applications falling under the scope of the aforementioned exceptional provision, following the amendments brought by
PD 167/2014, neither the Old nor the New Procedure decision-making authorities may grant humanitarian status any more.
Pending applications at first instance in the New Procedure were 3,633 as of 31 August 2015. Pending applications at second instance are not available.
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