Following a report from an accommodation Structure for unaccompanied minors and the intervention of
the Greek Ombudsperson, the process was completed and transfers restarted. 502 No delays were
reported in 2025.
During 2024, according to Eurostat 520 outgoing transfers were implemented under the Dublin procedure.
At the time of the writing, Eurostat had not yet published information regarding 2025.
According to MoMA statistics,503 during 2024, from July to December 2024, 222 outgoing transfers were
implemented under the Dublin procedure. According to a notification on Ministry’s website “Statistics on
Dublin Transfers are not currently available for the period of July 2023 – June 2024 due to the upgrade
of the computer system carried out by the Services of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum.” There
have been no other data available in relation to the numbers and types of requests for 2024 as of the
publication of this report. According to statistics for 2025, during the year 1,212 outgoing Dublin transfers
were made, but there is no information on the type of transfer. According to MoMA trasnfers during 2025
were as follows:504
Dublin transfers by month: 2025
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
41
78
90
68
107
119
117
1
111
119
Nov
Dec
Total
168 193
1,212
Source: Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Statistics available at: https://bit.ly/3uyzcLG.
2.3.
Personal interview
Indicators: Dublin: Personal Interview
Same as regular procedure
1. Is a personal interview of the asylum applicant in most cases conducted in practice in the Dublin
procedure?
Yes
No
❖ If so, are interpreters available in practice, for interviews?
Yes
No
2. Are interviews conducted through video conferencing?
Frequently
Rarely
Never
Questions relating to the Dublin procedure (e.g., on the presence of other family members in another
Member States) are always addressed to the applicant during the Regular Procedure: Personal Interview
examining the asylum claim. According to GCR’s experience, applicants who at this later stage, well after
the three-month deadline, express their will to be reunited with a close family member in another EU
Member State, have the chance to apply for family reunification. In several cases handled by GCR, the
Dublin Unit strives to send the outgoing request as soon as possible, after the written consent and all
necessary documents have been submitted.
Interviews in non-family reunification cases tend to be more detailed when it is ascertained that an asylum
applicant, after being fingerprinted, has already applied for asylum in another EU Member State.
2.4.
Appeal
Indicators: Dublin: Appeal
Same as regular procedure
502
503
504
Greek Ombudsperson, Resumption of transfers of unaccompanied minors in the context of family reunification
(“Dublin III”) following the Ombudsman’s intervention, 27 November 2023, available in Greek at:
https://tinyurl.com/yb73uyu6.
MoMA, Statistics, Consolidated Reports - Overview: December 2024 - International Protection | Appendix A,
available at https://bit.ly/3uyzcLG, Table 16.
MoMA, Statistics, Consolidated Reports - Overview: December 2025 – International Protection | Appendix A,
available https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp table 17
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